HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - John Calvin, Indulgence, Syncretism
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Sacred spaces: religious buildings and early modern connections iclicker: during the reformation, protestants: they did all these things. A tradition of heretics to be burned at stake and protestants used this symbol and turned it back to the catholics. Many protestants thought that images of saints were invitations to idolatry. Worshipping saints as idols instead of the more important things: ex. Relationship directly to god, instead of direction to saints. Some went as far as john calvin, the prominent theologian, and declared that god forbade the making of any images representing him. What are some key words that the two following images evoke? (1st image protestant church , 2nd. Protestant church (a protestant dutch reform church, 1649) Looks more plain (protestant church: no big paintings or big statues, no stained glass windows. Here"s a sense of purity and an image that people are more focused on praying to god.
