Why Gavin Ortlund is Wrong About Icons: Scriptural Foundations

Part one (recorded about a month and a half ago) of a many part series with Michael Garten where we systematically analyze Gavin Ortlund's critique of the normative Christian tradition concerning the making and honoring of icons. Michael Garten's research on preNicene veneration of images can be found on his Substack here

His upcoming book will argue that image veneration was widely approved of and practiced in the pre-Nicene Church. Please support his book project by becoming a paid subscriber of his Substack. Premium articles:

A detailed case with scholarly support for the claim that catacomb art was venerated

His next article will give a new argument that Clement of Alexandria's comments on signet-images are evidence of image veneration.

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