[Vision2020] Icons [was A Post Regarding Douglas Wilson]

[david sarff]

Wonder if the structures that visual thinkers ( non-linguistic)   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_thinking   communicate with are viewed 
as idolatry.
I have wondered about this for a long time, that we have a hidden vast 
miscommunication problem between linguistically dominant and non 
linguistically dominant persons and societies.

Dave

>Seeing the icons on Gary Greenfield's blog site prompts me to pass
>this on.
>
>After the takeover of the Christian church by Constantine, Jesus and
>other important figures in the church were represented in the same
>royal garb as was worn in the court of the emperor in Constantinople
>(present day Istanbul). The large churches became known as royal
>palaces or basilicas. On the ceiling was usually a large mosaic of
>the Emperor Jesus glowering down on his humble subjects. The clergy
>were dressed in expensive robes that put to shame the lilies of the
>field. The Christian liturgy was very similar to the court ceremonial
>of the day.
>
>However, statues were not used in the Eastern Church because carved
>images were forbidden to the ancient Hebrews in one of Yahweh's Words
>(Commandments). But the Western Church continued the use of statues
>for religious purposes, as had been done for many centuries by the
>pagan Egyptians, Greeks and Romans.
>
>Several centuries later many Protestants went even further in
>ecclesiastical iconoclasm and forbade both statues and pictures. To
>this day in many old Dutch Calvinist churches the original Catholic
>stained glass windows have been replaced by plain Protestant glass.
>So instead of worshipping an icon or a statue many Protestants now
>worship the Bible. Idolatry has been replaced by Bibliolatry.
>
>Ralph
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