Iconoclasm & Early Church Fathers – Part 1
Confessional Protestants hold to the ultimate authority of Scripture, but also hold to subordinate authorities, such as those offices designed and governed by Christ, as pastors and teachers. The keys to the kingdom are given to the officers of the church, and they are to bind and loose at their Divine Master’s bidding.
Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary defines “iconoclast” as follows: “A breaker or destroyer of images; a name which Catholics give to those who reject the use of images in religious worship.”
In this series, I will give citations from the early and better fathers of the church, who had not fallen to corruptions and abuses that later ages knew, due to ignorance, the malice of Satan, and an increasingly myopic theology tethered to the church herself rather than to the Spirit of God speaking in Holy Scripture. The similarity between Protestant iconoclasm and the early and better church fathers resides in this commitment to the ultimate authority of Scripture shared between the earlier church fathers, and the later fathers of the church.
