Iconophobia

Iconophobia is part of a wider phenomenon: aversion to the physical expression of religion, to nonverbal ritual performance. I am calling this sacramentalism, and the fear of it sacraphobia. Thanks to Zwingli and Calvin, the main form of Protestantism was highly sacraphobic. Of course, it did not dispense with ritual altogether. Its veneration of the Word of God produced new forms of ritual.  – Reinventing Liberal Christianity

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