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31 - Early Modern Christianity and Idolatry

from Part IV - The Religious Question

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2019

By
Carlos M. N. Eire
Edited by
R. Ward Holder
R. Ward Holder
Affiliation:
Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire
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Summary

Idolatry is a fighting word, feisty and judgmental, freighted with disapproval. After all, to call any sacred object an idol is to question its legitimacy.

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IconoclasmNicodemismidolophobiaHuldrych ZwingliAndreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt
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John Calvin in Context , pp. 267 - 277
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Suggested Further Readings

Benedict, Philip. Christ’s Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Crew, Phyllis Mack. Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the Netherlands, 1544–1569. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978.Google Scholar
Elwood, Christopher. The Body Broken: The Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.Google Scholar
Mochizuki, Mia. The Netherlandish Image after Iconoclasm, 1566–1672 : Material Religion in the Dutch Golden Age. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008.Google Scholar
Zachman, Randall C. Image and Word in the Theology of John Calvin. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2009.Google Scholar

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