This 1995 book is an effort to recover the participation of ordinary Christians in the enterprise of Reformation through an exploration of the meaning of acts of iconoclasm: what they tell us about the role of images in Christianity and about ordinary people's theologies.
Examining churches, altars, vestments, and liturgical time through a medieval liturgist's eyes, this book offers a new understanding of the Reformation and its radical reconception of worship, matter, and time.