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A Christian Reflection on Religious and Secular Iconoclasm


A Christian Reflection on Religious and Secular Iconoclasm

Second, the most important form of iconoclasm today, however, is what I would call secular iconoclasm. It is motivated not by religious teaching ...

A Christological Reflection on Iconoclasm and Iconophilia. - Homiletic

Carnes reflects on Christian images of Christ, examining the varied ways in which Christ is made present through images. Her agenda is twofold. She is concerned ...

Robert Herron - Christian Scholar's Review

A Christian Reflection on Religious and Secular Iconoclasm ... “So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: 'Men of Athens, I perceive that in every ...

Use of images between Julian the Apostate and the Iconoclasm

His writing arguably being the most refined synthesis of all prior arguments in defence of image worship by Christians to date. The full text of ...

Month: January 2019 - Orthodox-Reformed Bridge

The convergence of religious devotional practices stirred up resistance among the rigorist aniconists which would explain the presence of ...

Against Political Iconoclasm - The Josias

To political iconoclasts, any attempt to fashion a political order according to Christian principles will either lead to a worship of the state ...

Iconoclasm - Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Phoenix, AZ

In the early Church, the persecution of Christians was so extreme that not many images were being used for fear of being found out as a ...

Iconoclasm and Reformation – DHM-Blog

Those Reformers who spoke out against the use of images in Christian churches generally went on to support their argument with a second Bible ...

Iconoclasts • Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911

As regards the attitude towards religious images assumed by the primitive Christian Church, several questions have often been treated as one ...

Iconoclasm and the Enlightenment Museum | James Simpson

new secular culture is in fact in silent dialogue with a repressed religious culture.22. The neutralization of art is not only a challenge for both Lutheran ...

On Iconoclasm, Part One - CultureWatch

Rightly or wrongly, both the veneration of icons and images, and opposition to them, have occurred throughout church history. My qualifications ...

The Writings of John of Damascus During the First Iconoclast ...

imagery for religious purposes by early Christian figures was the product of a ... and into the realm of secular ... Crone, Patricia, "Islam, Judeo- ...

Secular iconoclasm: purifying, privatizing, and profaning public faith

Secularists tend not to destroy religious icons, but to displace them. This, too, is a form of iconoclasm. By excluding certain symbols from ...

The power of images in an iconoclast culture - Catholic World Report

Our image-saturated culture has lost sight of God's face made visible to us in Christ, groping instead after new idols. Sins of the eyes draw us ...

More Than Iconoclasts - Growing Christians Ministries

Often these Christian iconoclasts are right up front when it comes to church discipline or sermons denouncing worldly idols and practices that have crept ...

Art historian answers: Why does iconoclasm continue to matter?

What emerged from that struggle is relevant not only to the history of art and religion but also to our current understanding of how images work ...

Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond

Through various periods of human history religious iconoclasm connects with the prohibition of figurative representation. Conception of aniconism in the ancient ...

Christianity and Iconoclasm - The Kindled Flame Blog

Therefore, as true Christian iconoclasts, we are to demolish arguments and imaginations that fuel false worship and bring down false ideas, ...

Windows to Heaven: The Heresy of Iconoclasm

It was mentioned before that there were those in the early Church who likely opposed the use of images in worship. As the use of Christian ...

Iconoclasm? : r/Reformed - Reddit

First Iconoclasm isn't a simple rejection of art. It is a rejection of Icons and the Iconolotry of both the Roman and Greek churches. Both sects ...