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glfredrick · Feb 20, 2011

Jerome said: ↑

The Reformation in National Context (France):

"Puritan Aethetics" (Britain):

"Calvinists and "Papist Idolatry""(Low Countries):

Photo of a sculpture in Utrecht defaced by Calvinists:
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You seem to have a bigger problem with a theology than with the worship of icons... Strange indeed! Especially when the theology of Calvinism points to an all gracious sovereign Lord!

Jerome · Feb 20, 2011

Reformation and Iconoclasm

Luther treated the removal of the images with relatively little passion. . . .in the city church of Wittenberg, where the "idols in paint" were torn down by Karlstadt and his supporters. Luther reacted to such crude incursions with an even more moderate attitude towards art works; more important than removing them would be to develop a new relationship with them based on the new doctrines. Unlawful acts were not called for.
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Although Zwingli agreed with the removal of the images, he spoke out against using any kind of force. He recommended covering the sculptures in the churches and closing the winged altars, as was done anyway during Lent. . . .In later days, Zwingli tolerated artistic representations, as long as they were not venerated but read as narratives.
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Among the reformers, it was Calvin who adopted the most radical attitude towards religious works and demanded that believers should make no images of any sort of God. The iconoclasts who viciously wrecked art works throughout the northern Netherlands in 1566 and "cleansed" churches from top to bottom justified their actions by reference to Calvin's doctrine. This act of devastation explains why so few paintings from before 1566 have survived in Holland.
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Jerome · Mar 20, 2015

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Here is an account of Wm. Whittingham and his Huguenot wife's acts at Durham.
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What a thrifty one, she! Recycling others' too-fancy gravestones as her threshold stones to be trodden underfoot.:tear:
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Briony-Gloriana said: ↑

How incredibly offensive, I only wonder what stopped them from desecrating the bones of the dead.
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And it continues today. Sick:

http://www.jta.org/2015/03/13/news-...rom-church-stairs-says-chief-lithuanian-rabbi

"March 13, 2015
Lithuania’s chief rabbi urged the country’s Evangelical Reformed Church to remove Jewish headstones being used as stairs to a Vilnius Christian house of worship."

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