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PROTESTANTS AND PICTURES: RELIGION, VISUAL CULTURE, AND THE AGE OF AMERICAN MASS PRODUCTION.
PROTESTANTS AND PICTURES: RELIGION, VISUAL CULTURE, AND THE AGE OF AMERICAN MASS PRODUCTION. By DAVID MORGAN. Oxford University Press. 417pp.$35.
IN ACCORD WITH much of Scripture itself, the churches of the Reformation have emphasized the ear over the eye: files ex auditu. The conviction that faith comes less by seeing than by hearing (Romans 10:17) undergirded the Protestant renewal of the Church through the preached and sung Word. Luther famously urged his people to "stick your eyes in your ears" when listening to sermons, so that the eva...See the full content of this document
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