"Which never appeared in any human shape": Laudians against the Rublev icon?
In two earlier posts ( here and here ) referencing Taylor's critique of depictions of the Holy Trinity dependent on Old Testament encounters, I suggested that this would point to a rejection by Taylor of the famous and ubiquitous Rublev icon. Taylor was not alone amongst the Laudians in adhering to this conventional Reformed critique of depictions of the Trinity. In his A New Gagg for an Old Goose ( XLIV , 1624), the Laudian Richard Montague had similarly stated - in response to a Roman apologist - objections to such depictions, declaring " it is utterly unlawful to picture or represent the Trinity": And your Masters can tell you, that whereas it is related in the old Testament often, that God appeared unto men, the Doctors of the Church are not resolved, whether God appeared at any time personally, or wholly by the Ministry of Angels. Your men, the Jesuits, Victorellus, Vasquez, and the rest, nay, all later Divines, saith Vasquez, but Clicthous, affirm, that God ne
