HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - Indulgence, John Calvin, Ninety-Five Theses
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Sacred spaces: religious buildings and early modern connections. Protestants burnt statues and paintings at the stake, decapitated statues, and stripped churches of pictures of saints. Anything not christian was usually burnt at the stake, and protestants used it against the. Catholics to show that the catholics were being heretics. Instead of attention directed at important things, it was directed towards saints. Protestants felt it was more important with god and them as opposed to through the. Church, bishops, popes, and etc. like the catholics did. John calvin = prominent theologian; declared that god forbade the making of any images representing him. ". Key words for protestantism (protestant dutch reform church, 1649) Key words for catholicism (baroque catholic church, constructed around 1700) Elaborate; in sense of decoration, sitting in pews. Protestant churches face different ways while catholic churches are all facing in one direction at the priest and all these different ornaments, decorations, representations, and alter.