<\/p>
A book on the uses of the biblical story of Josiah would make a fascinating cultural history. <\/p>\n
The Reformers found inspiration for iconoclasm in Josiah. <\/p>\n
Bacon described his program as \u201cinstauration,\u201d borrowing the Vulgate\u2019s term for the renovation of the temple. <\/p>\n
Or, more broadly, the role of Solomon\u2019s Temple in the Western imagination. <\/p>\n
Whitney remarks of Bacon\u2019s \u201cinstauration\u201d: \u201cAugustine and Calvin as well as Bacon refer to it, and many Renaissance writers, including Bude, Rabelais, and such English divines as Walter Travers (whom Bacon heard preach) use instauratio <\/em> or its French cognate ( instauration <\/em> ) with awareness of its figural sense to mean something like \u2018restoration to a completeness of meaning or nature.\u2019\u201d To what extent Josiah or Solomon are behind these references is unclear. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A book on the uses of the biblical story of Josiah would make a fascinating cultural history. The Reformers found inspiration for iconoclasm in Josiah. Bacon described his program as \u201cinstauration,\u201d borrowing the Vulgate\u2019s term for the renovation of the temple. Or, more broadly, the role of Solomon\u2019s Temple in the Western imagination. Whitney remarks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"yoast_head":"\n