Sentences with phrase «reformation iconoclasm»

Our inheritance of Reformation iconoclasm is usually put forward as the traditional reason for our discomfort; and in the mainline churches our commitment to social justice and our resulting decisions about stewardship are cited as contemporary explanation and justification.

That division was expressed in Reformation iconoclasm and the rejection of the notion that material objects — the bread and wine of the Mass, relics, images — could be vehicles of spiritual reality.

Eire first made his mark as a historian in 1989 with The War Against the Idols, a study of Reformation iconoclasm and the theology that underlay it.

Our inheritance of Reformation iconoclasm is usually put...

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But even though iconoclasm in the material sphere was the characteristic act of Christian intransigence at the beginning of the Church's history, at the time of the monks of the Egyptian desert in the fourth century, and in the Reformation, it no longer seems to concern us much.

But, claims Gorringe, professor of theology at the University of Exeter, there was a «pull» as well: «There is not simply an iconoclasm, but also an iconpoiesis in the Reformation which understands that the world mirrors the divine in its banal, day - to - day reality.»

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.

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Iwona Blazwick, Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, had a more eclectic list of British traditions which she felt still informed the way that artists approached their work: small rooms, rain, cloudy skies, colonialism, civil rights, the Reformation and iconoclasm — a culture of the word not the image.

Others, though, greeted it as a masterpiece and called for it to have a permanent life (which was not the artist's intention), comparing its destruction to the iconoclasm of the English Reformation.