Seeing and Believing Images of Christian Faith

Five hundred years ago with the invention of movable type a new symbol system was made available to Christians as to all in Europe. They hailed it as a means to bring to the literate minority God's word attested in the Scriptures. All alike welcomed the printed book as an advance in the diffusion of God's word. Some in the burgher class, however, began to set it in opposition, not to God's word proclaimed and commented on in speech, but to all non-verbal symbols of the unseen, Triune God.Philibert, Paul is the author of 'Seeing and Believing Images of Christian Faith' with ISBN 9780814661260 and ISBN 0814661262.