Reading William T. Cavanaugh, The Uses of Idolatry. đź“š His The Myth of Religious Violence was one of my more heavily highlighted reads.
@ReaderJohn Nice. My copy was supposed to be delivered last week but it’s been bouncing around “facilities.” Excited to read it
@ReaderJohn Curious to hear your thoughts as you make your way through. Myth was also quite generative in my thinking a number of years ago; would be interesting to revisit now...
@bbowman Just finished the introduction last night. In some ways, Cavanaugh acknowledges, he's working out the same insights as Myth, perhaps at a more fundamental level. The "idols" of the present book are (much?) the same as the non-religious causes of violence in the former.
@bbowman First foray into the meat of the book, some of it felt very dense — more closely argued than I'm accustomed to reading any more. I may need to pay less attention to trees, more to forest. Excerpt to follow.