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July 17, 2001
Paul Corby Finney, ed. Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual Artists and the Calvinist Tradition Grand Rapids and Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 1999. 539 pp. $65.00 (080283860X)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2001.35

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With the collection of nineteen essays in Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition, Paul Corbey Finney promises to provide a revisionist account of the relationship between Calvinism and the visual arts by challenging the presumed, prevalent view that Calvinism had either no impact or a purely negative effect on the development of the visual arts. Rather than focus on acts of Reformed iconoclasm, Finney calls his readers to examine the positive...