Talking to the Shadows

Talking to the Shadows

The Cleansing of the Temple

iconoclasm, idolatry and being careful what you wish for

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Nicholas Buxton
Mar 10, 2024
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Christ driving the Traders from the Temple, El Greco (c. 1600), National Gallery, London

What do sixteenth-century Protestant reformers, twenty-first century radical Islamists and contemporary progressives all have in common? They are iconoclasts, determined to destroy anything and everything that represents the ideology to which they are so implacably o…

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