Moses'
Second Commandment."Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven
image, nor any likeness of any form that is in heaven above,
or that is on the earth beneath..."
Psalms
97.7 "Confounded be all that worship carved images"
� Phillips 1973 p.127 The Dean of
St.Paul's had presented Queen Elizabeth I with a new prayer
book,"You know I have an aversion to to idolatry: to images
of this kind." - "Wherein is the idolatry, may it please
your majesty ?" - "In the cuts resembling angels and saints
; nay, grosser absurdities, pictures resembling the Blessed
Trinity... Have you forgotten our proclamations against
images, pictures and Romish relics in the churches ?"
Phillips 1973 p.12 "... basic to the Christian
defense of images is the general acceptance of things of
this world as necessary bridges to the next."
Phillips 1973 p.150 John Donne's sermon, that
images "That if the true use of pictures be preached to them
there is no danger of an abuse; and so as remembrances of
that which had been taught in the pulpit, they may be
retained."
Phillips 1973 p.178 Bishop Laud, "Though Calvin
does not approve images in churches; yet he doth approve
very well of them which contain a history... in teaching and
admonishing the people..."
Casey,
1976 "Preoccupied by logocentric concerns, philosophers have
been consistently sceptical of imagining and its products.
Their skepticism stems largely from a conception of
philosophical thinking as image free. "
Gilam
1986 quotes Ben Jonson's attack on Inigo Jones Theatrical
Spectacles,
"O Showes !
Showes ! Mighty Showes "
The Eloquence of Masques ! What need of
Prose
Or Verse or sense t'Express Immortall you
?.."
Glasgow, Narayanan and Chandrasekaran 1995 "There
has been a tradition in psychology and philosophy that
dismisses mental images as epiphenomenal, 1.e. that they do
not causally participate in reasoning or problem
solving."
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