audiobook Reformation and the Visual Arts: The Protestant Image Question in Western and Eastern Europe (Christianity and Society in the Modern World) by Sergiusz Michalski in Arts-Photography

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Covering a vast geographical and chronological span; and bringing new and exciting material to light; The Reformation and the Visual Arts provides a unique overvie of religious images and iconoclasm; starting with the consequences of the Byzantine image controversy and ending with the Eastern Orthodox churches of the nineteenth century. The author argues that the image question played a large role in the divisions within European Protestantism and was intricately connected with the Eucharist controversy. He analyses the positions of the major Protestant reformers - Luther; Zwingli; Calvin and Karlstadt - on the legitimacy of religious paintings and investigates iconoclasm both as a form of religious and political protest and as a complex set of mock-revolutionary rites and denigration rituals. The book also contains new research on relations between Protestant iconoclasm and the extreme icon-worship of the Eastern Orthodox churches; and provides a brief discussion of Eastern protestantizing sects; especially in Russia.