Is the Trinity Shield an image of God?

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Posting a thread looking for confirmation under the guise of seeking opinions is in bad faith.

Again, I don’t have a strong opinion here and this definitely is not what I am doing.

 

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Just as a historical side note...

In August, 1643, the English Parliament (perhaps acting on the advice of the Westminster Assembly?) passed An Ordinance for the utter demolishing, removing and taking away of all Monuments of Superstition or Idolatry, which stated:

All Crucifixes, Crosses, and all Images and Pictures of any one or more Persons of the Trinity, or of the Virgin Mary, and all other Images and Pictures of Saints, or superstitious Inscriptions in or upon all and every the said Churches or Chappels, or other places of publique Prayer, Church-yards, or other places to any the said Churches and Chappels, or other place of publique Prayer, belonging, or in any other open place.​

This very clearly applied to the context of churches and other public spaces, and expressly involved depicting the Persons of the Trinity. Then, in May of 1644, Parliament passed a follow-on law called, An Ordinance for the further demolishing of Monuments of Idolatry and Superstition, which stated:

And that no Cross, Crucifix, Picture, or Representation of any of the Persons of the Trinity, or of any Angel or Saint shall be, or continue upon any Plate, or other thing used, or to be used in or about the worship of God.​

The exact intent of the additional distinction between a picture and a representation of the Persons of the Trinity is not entirely clear, but it seems to generally have had reference to things like depicting lambs for the Son, and doves for the Holy Spirit. However, several so-called iconoclasts acting upon this ordinance seem to have taken it even further, as we read in their journals. One Francis Jessup recorded,

We brake down a pot of holy water, St. Andrew with his cross, and St. Catherine with her wheel; and we took down the cover of the font, and the four evangelists, and a triangle for the Trinity.​

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Probably the most famous and zealous Puritan that participated in these actions was William Dowsing, who gave the following accounts:

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...a Cross on the Chancel they promised to take down; and a Triangle on the Porch, for the Trinity.​

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...In the Chancel, we brake down an Angel; 3 orate pro anima, in the Glass; and the Trinity in a Triangle.​

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...[to be defaced] 2 Crosses on the Font; and a Triangle for the Trinity, in Stone.​

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(C. H. Evelyn White, The journal of William Dowsing of Stratford, parliamentary visitor, appointed under a warrant from the Earl of Manchester, for demolishing the superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches, [Ipswich: 1885], 11, 27, 29, 31)​

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Again, these actions very specifically pertained to churches, where it seems such things would likely have been deemed as prone to veneration or idolatry.

Yes, this I suppose is where I’m getting confused. Were not they counting trinities and triangles as visual representations? And if so, wouldn’t this apply to the Shield as well?