RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
From another thread,
I had a Reformed convert to EO bring this up to me. While I agree with the answer Rich gave in the other thread, I was wondering about the historical context. Late Medieval Roman piety would often imagine the "wounds of Jesus" and to existentially identify with them, or something like that (mysticism resists rational explanation). I see the divines as cutting that off at the pass.
Candidate: "I take exception to the WLC on the forbidding of making mental images of the Son of God because I don't think it's possible to think of Jesus without having a mental image of a man in your mind."
I had a Reformed convert to EO bring this up to me. While I agree with the answer Rich gave in the other thread, I was wondering about the historical context. Late Medieval Roman piety would often imagine the "wounds of Jesus" and to existentially identify with them, or something like that (mysticism resists rational explanation). I see the divines as cutting that off at the pass.