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Not at all. In fact, the modern Gavin Ortlund-esque critique of image veneration is quite overstated and much of the modern Protestant critique is based in art-historian Ernst Ktizinger's revisionist model about the development of Byzantine art (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suDdxUC9kCc).
The archaeology also shows that Christian art was abundant in the earliest centuries, from the Roman Catacombs, to the Dura Europos church. At the very least it was present, and the Reformed fantasy of an entirely aniconic early Christianity is not well founded.
Not at all. In fact, the modern Gavin Ortlund-esque critique of image veneration is quite overstated and much of the modern Protestant critique is based in art-historian Ernst Ktizinger's revisionist model about the development of Byzantine art (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suDdxUC9kCc).
The archaeology also shows that Christian art was abundant in the earliest centuries, from the Roman Catacombs, to the Dura Europos church. At the very least it was present, and the Reformed fantasy of an entirely aniconic early Christianity is not well founded.
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