War Against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship From Erasmus to Calvin

Publication Date: 
1986
Author(s): 
Carlos M. N. Eire
ISBN Number: 
9780520000000
Publisher Site/Purchasing Link: 
Cambridge University Press
Author (Faculty Member): 
Carlos Eire

In the second decade of the sixteenth century medieval piety suddenly began to be attacked in some places as "idolatry," or false religion. This study calls attention to the importance of the idolatry issue during the Reformation.