Sentences with phrase «protestant iconoclasm»

No effort by Dürer or by any other painter could stem Protestant iconoclasm.

We are no longer seriously inhibited by Protestant iconoclasm, but the wellsprings are dry.

Not exact matches

While both of these factors — an inherited distrust of physical form, and a current focus on monetary economies — clearly shape our feelings and actions in relation to art, the equivocal nature of the Protestant relationship to the arts becomes ever clearer if we look at what lies behind the question of iconoclasm.

It has often been noted that an earlier Protestant reverence for the Bible was later transformed into an equally Protestant disintegration of the Bible at the hands of the «higher critics» in nineteenth - century Germany, with the bibliolatry of the first three centuries of the Reformation transmogrifying into the biblical iconoclasm of the last two centuries.