""Iconoclasm was the central sacrament of the reform," states Eamon Duffy. It is an assertion that is more provocative…"

"As Lyndal Roper states, the body of the Virgin was a "litmus test of the separation of the divine and the human" for …"

"What lay behind the reformers' uneasiness about the place of the Virgin was not an upsurge of entirely new views. As …"

"The reformers perceived the necessity of wholesale cultural revolution and (if possible) the rooting out not just the…"

"A century before, 1520s, the German Protestant Andres von Karlstadt had likewise become more vehement a destroyer of …"

"Beattie comments that is odd that Christianity and psychoanalysis have not come together more frequently to pose the …"

"English writers from the later Middle Ages to the mid seventeenth century both venerated and denigrated a body, proba…"

"The reformers believed that medieval theology and devotion had sexualized the Virgin by excessive idolatrous attentio…"

"But if the vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet; for such things are of the spirit, and i…"

"A long time ago my father told me what his father told him, that there was once a Lakota holy man, called Drinks Wate…"