Captain Picard
Puritan Board Freshman
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For those who don't know, my testimony includes a relatively recent shift to the Gospel of Grace after a three-year stint in Romanism. One of the things that drew my younger, stupider self was a conviction that the liturgical, artistic and architectural forms of Rome held more aesthetic appeal than the consumer temples of the emergent scene (in a twist of faith, I am a member of a rather...contemporary church now) or (what I perceived as) the uncomfortable and drab "picture-free museums" of those reformed iconoclasts.
This is not a thread about imagery of persons of the Trinity or iconography, but rather the permissible bounds of church architecture in the confessional tradition. Did the Reformers speak on it? Or the Puritan divines? Sort of curious particular whether specific architectural styles or devices were employed or condemned.
For those who don't know, my testimony includes a relatively recent shift to the Gospel of Grace after a three-year stint in Romanism. One of the things that drew my younger, stupider self was a conviction that the liturgical, artistic and architectural forms of Rome held more aesthetic appeal than the consumer temples of the emergent scene (in a twist of faith, I am a member of a rather...contemporary church now) or (what I perceived as) the uncomfortable and drab "picture-free museums" of those reformed iconoclasts.
This is not a thread about imagery of persons of the Trinity or iconography, but rather the permissible bounds of church architecture in the confessional tradition. Did the Reformers speak on it? Or the Puritan divines? Sort of curious particular whether specific architectural styles or devices were employed or condemned.