Category: Images
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The Reformation was About Idolatry
Peter Leithart wrote a post about the centrality of idolatry to the Reformation. I strongly concur with what he says, and I think his point is largely lost in modern Protestant polemics. The emphasis usually is placed on justification, when idolatry was every bit as large a concern, and I believe that you see more…
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The Golden Calf
Israel and Judah worshiped Yaweh in a compromised way that included the worship of deity via statues. This is what happened when Aaron first instituted the golden calf to worship Yaweh – note that Israel was not worshiping other gods, they were worshiping the one true God via a statue. John Sailhamer offers the following…
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The Crusades Effect on the Relic Market
And of course the crusades, particularly the fourth, introduced such a flood of relics of all sorts throughout Europe that the Apostles and the early martyrs could be almost omnipresent through their relics duplicated and scattered all over the West. Patrick J. Geary, Furta Sacra, page 24.
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William Ames on image worship
William Ames writing in his Marrow of Theology discusses image worship: Prayer is opposed by the use of representative images at or before which God is worshiped, even though the worship is referred not to the images themselves – subjectively, as some say – but objectively to God alone. Superstition of this type is called…