“There is a surprising area of agreement between the Reformed
and the Orthodox. Reformed theology believes in icons too!... The whole idea of
an image (eiko_n) is an obvious Biblical category – man made in the image of
God. Christ as the image of the invisible God as the second Adam. However, it
stretches beyond this. For the Reformed everything is iconic. God has imprinted evidence of his own beauty
and glory throughout creation…. Ps 19:1-2…. Ps 8:9…. Rom 1:20. Every blade of
grass, every tree and flower displays the glory of God. Every square inch
belongs to Christ, the mediator of creation (Col 1:15-17; Heb 1:1-3). If icons
are windows to draw us to God, opened books to lead us to heaven, so too is the
entire order of creation – the beauty of the hills, the colours of the grass,
sea and sky, the trees and plants, the changing of the seasons. See Barth, CD
II/1, 650f.”
Similarly, Calvin, Commentary on the First Book of Moses
Called Genesis, argument and on 1:31, Institutes 1:14:21
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