The Importance of Images in the Church

Svingley was drawn into a total breach with the roman church. He discouraged fellow reformers and zurdich from acting too quickly. We achieve our ends, he said, by going slow, slowly but surely. The Swiss iconoclast motivation was only partially overlapping with that of the byzantine iconoclasts. Both groups did worry that the veneration of images constituted idolatry. But in byzantium, there was no principle of scripture alone - whereas it was at the core of swingle's movement. This was to be a stripped down version christianity, purified of everything that was not explicitly mentioned in the bible.