A History of Protestant Iconoclasm

Why did one branch of Protestantism preserve religious images while another stripped its churches bare? ⛪ In this historical overview, I trace the Lutheran, Reformed, and Anglican responses to sacred art during the Reformation. The story moves from Luther and Karlstadt’s bitter disagreement in Wittenberg to Calvin and Zwingli’s reforms in Switzerland and the dramatic religious reversals of Tudor England, revealing why the Protestant relationship with images was far more complicated than a simple rejection of Christian art.

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A Storm of Images
by Philip Jenkins
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