The Place of Images in the Protestant Tradition
In a recent Ad Fontes essay, Dr. Matthew Hoskin made a surprising argument. At the beginning and end of the piece, he briefly states that icon veneration falls “within the bounds of the formularies of some Protestant churches.” This claim raised an eyebrow or two, and at least one was my own. After all, a critical view of icons and images has historically been one of the things that most distinguishes Protestantism both from Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. In what follows I would like to advance disagreement with Dr. Hoskin on this point.
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