Back to the Library
The Reformation · 1522
On the Removal of Images
Andreas Karlstadt · c. 1486–1541
Read elsewhere
What it is
An argument that images in churches break the first commandment and must be taken down at once, whatever the weak may feel about it.
Why it lasted
The beginning of Reformation iconoclasm and of Luther's break with his own senior colleague over the pace of change.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
Read next