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Voracious Idols and Violent Hands

Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel

Lee Palmer Wandel author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:13th Sep '99

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This 1995 book explores the acts of iconoclasm as the means to recover the participation of ordinary Christians in the Reformation.

This 1995 book is an effort to recover the participation of ordinary Christians in the enterprise of Reformation through an exploration of the meaning of acts of iconoclasm: what they tell us about the role of images in Christianity and about ordinary people's theologies.This 1995 book is an effort to recover the participation of ordinary Christians in the enterprise of Reformation through an exploration of the meaning of acts of iconoclasm: what they tell us about the role of images in Christianity and about ordinary people's theologies. Its focus, on ordinary Christians, distinguishes it from other studies of Reformation iconoclasm. Its concern, to recover their agency in Reformation and to discern their theology in acts, may be of interest to scholars in American history, anthropology, and religious studies. Its analysis of images in Christianity will be of interest to art historians.

' … this innovative and challenging study sheds much light on changing perceptions of the relations between the material and the spiritual, the laity and the clergy'. History

ISBN: 9780521663434

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm

Weight: 330g

220 pages