An iconoclast is, properly speaking, a destroyer of idols. Growing up in Europe, I still remember some tsk-tsking over the tendency of early Christian preachers and missionaries to smash statues of pagan gods into little bits; as though it would be more sensible to honor the false gods who had wickedly enslaved our fathers to the evil one.
Presbyterians, historically, do iconoclasm better than just about anybody else. Nonetheless, Peter Leithart offers an interesting and attractive counterpoint: http://www.leithart.com/2009/03/18/incarnation-and-icon/#more-5306.
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