Archetypes in Religion and Beyond - A Practical Theory of Human Integration and Inspiration - Robert M. Ellis
f. Yahweh, Idolatry, and Literacy
Archetypes in Religion and Beyond - A Practical Theory of Human Integration and Inspiration - Robert M. Ellis
Robert M. Ellis [+]
Middle Way Society
Robert M. Ellis is author of a range of interdisciplinary books on Middle Way Philosophy, both within and beyond Buddhism. These have included The Buddha’s Middle Way: Experiential Judgement in His Life and Teaching (Equinox Publishing, 2019) and Archetypes in Religion and Beyond: A Practical Theory of Human Integration and Inspiration (Equinox Publishing, 2022). He is also founder of the Middle Way Society and of Tirylan House Retreat Centre in Wales.
Description
The archetypal insight of the Hebrew Bible is its emphasis on God as schematic rather than as a specific symbol, expressed in the forbidding of idolatry. This tries to avoid projection for pre-literate people, but Judeo-Christian tradition has often missed the bigger issue of the idolatry of concepts by the literate.