David J. Davis, Ph.D. (2009) in History, University of Exeter, is Assistant Professor in History at Houston Baptist University. He has published several articles and reviews on the English Reformation and early modern print culture.

“Seeing Faith … presents a well-constructed and well-illustrated survey which draws on a wide range of contemporary sources. It … successfully probes a sizeable subject which should be enjoyed by readers in a number of fields.” Margaret Aston. In: Print Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2015), pp. 315-317.“Davis has written an excellent book, dealing with a subject full of pitfalls with care and obvious academic integrity.”Andrew A. Chibi, England. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 44, No. 4 (2013), pp. 1078-1080."this book brings together important evidence that the desire for visual images continued into the Reformation." James A. Knapp, Loyola University Chicago. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 300-301.“The monograph is well written and throws numerous shafts of light on specific cases and on wider issues such as the debate on ‘iconophobia’.” Ian Green, University of Edinburgh. In: Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 100, No. 1 (2014), pp. 148-149.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Images and Early Modern Religious IdentityReligious Identity and the English Reformation(s)Studying Early Modern Printed ImagesSeeing Faith, Reading ImagesSources and ChaptersChapter 1: Material Religion: The Image in Early Modern PrintThe Public Sphere and CommodificationCensorship and Religious IdentityEnglish Printed Images: A European TraditionMoving Images in the MarketplaceConclusionChapter 2: Printed Images and the Reformation in EnglandIconoclasm and Protestant AdiaphoraReformed Theology and Boundaries of AcceptabilityTheodore Beze and Peter Martyr VermigliWilliam PerkinsThe Catholic OppositionTranslation and MistranslationsProtestant HypocrisyConclusionChapter 3: Christ, the Virgin, and the Catholic Tradition of Printed ImagesCatholic Primers and English ProtestantismCatholic Printers in Reformation EnglandImages of the VirginImages of Christ and the Catholic CommunityConclusionChapter 4: Representations of Christ: Reforming the Imitatio ChristiProtestants and the God-ManFrom Corpus Christi to Christ DisplayedProtestant Identity and the Imitatio ChristiThe Suffering Christ: Meditation and ImitationSeeing the End: Resurrection and JudgmentConclusionChapter 5: Seeing God: Protestant Visions of the FatherTraditional Images and Recycled PrintsGod in Illustrated BiblesThe Exception of Divine VisionsGod at CreationConclusionChapter 6: Reforming the Deity: Symbolic Pictures of GodContinuity and ChangeA Reformed Icon?: Symbols of GodThe Devotional ImageConclusionConclusionAppendixBibliography

David J. Davis, Ph.D. (2009) in History, University of Exeter, is Assistant Professor in History at Houston Baptist University. He has published several articles and reviews on the English Reformation and early modern print culture.

“Seeing Faith … presents a well-constructed and well-illustrated survey which draws on a wide range of contemporary sources. It … successfully probes a sizeable subject which should be enjoyed by readers in a number of fields.” Margaret Aston. In: Print Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2015), pp. 315-317.“Davis has written an excellent book, dealing with a subject full of pitfalls with care and obvious academic integrity.”Andrew A. Chibi, England. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 44, No. 4 (2013), pp. 1078-1080."this book brings together important evidence that the desire for visual images continued into the Reformation." James A. Knapp, Loyola University Chicago. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 300-301.“The monograph is well written and throws numerous shafts of light on specific cases and on wider issues such as the debate on ‘iconophobia’.” Ian Green, University of Edinburgh. In: Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 100, No. 1 (2014), pp. 148-149.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Images and Early Modern Religious IdentityReligious Identity and the English Reformation(s)Studying Early Modern Printed ImagesSeeing Faith, Reading ImagesSources and ChaptersChapter 1: Material Religion: The Image in Early Modern PrintThe Public Sphere and CommodificationCensorship and Religious IdentityEnglish Printed Images: A European TraditionMoving Images in the MarketplaceConclusionChapter 2: Printed Images and the Reformation in EnglandIconoclasm and Protestant AdiaphoraReformed Theology and Boundaries of AcceptabilityTheodore Beze and Peter Martyr VermigliWilliam PerkinsThe Catholic OppositionTranslation and MistranslationsProtestant HypocrisyConclusionChapter 3: Christ, the Virgin, and the Catholic Tradition of Printed ImagesCatholic Primers and English ProtestantismCatholic Printers in Reformation EnglandImages of the VirginImages of Christ and the Catholic CommunityConclusionChapter 4: Representations of Christ: Reforming the Imitatio ChristiProtestants and the God-ManFrom Corpus Christi to Christ DisplayedProtestant Identity and the Imitatio ChristiThe Suffering Christ: Meditation and ImitationSeeing the End: Resurrection and JudgmentConclusionChapter 5: Seeing God: Protestant Visions of the FatherTraditional Images and Recycled PrintsGod in Illustrated BiblesThe Exception of Divine VisionsGod at CreationConclusionChapter 6: Reforming the Deity: Symbolic Pictures of GodContinuity and ChangeA Reformed Icon?: Symbols of GodThe Devotional ImageConclusionConclusionAppendixBibliography

David J. Davis, Ph.D. (2009) in History, University of Exeter, is Assistant Professor in History at Houston Baptist University. He has published several articles and reviews on the English Reformation and early modern print culture.

“Seeing Faith … presents a well-constructed and well-illustrated survey which draws on a wide range of contemporary sources. It … successfully probes a sizeable subject which should be enjoyed by readers in a number of fields.” Margaret Aston. In: Print Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2015), pp. 315-317.“Davis has written an excellent book, dealing with a subject full of pitfalls with care and obvious academic integrity.”Andrew A. Chibi, England. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 44, No. 4 (2013), pp. 1078-1080."this book brings together important evidence that the desire for visual images continued into the Reformation." James A. Knapp, Loyola University Chicago. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 300-301.“The monograph is well written and throws numerous shafts of light on specific cases and on wider issues such as the debate on ‘iconophobia’.” Ian Green, University of Edinburgh. In: Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 100, No. 1 (2014), pp. 148-149.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Images and Early Modern Religious IdentityReligious Identity and the English Reformation(s)Studying Early Modern Printed ImagesSeeing Faith, Reading ImagesSources and ChaptersChapter 1: Material Religion: The Image in Early Modern PrintThe Public Sphere and CommodificationCensorship and Religious IdentityEnglish Printed Images: A European TraditionMoving Images in the MarketplaceConclusionChapter 2: Printed Images and the Reformation in EnglandIconoclasm and Protestant AdiaphoraReformed Theology and Boundaries of AcceptabilityTheodore Beze and Peter Martyr VermigliWilliam PerkinsThe Catholic OppositionTranslation and MistranslationsProtestant HypocrisyConclusionChapter 3: Christ, the Virgin, and the Catholic Tradition of Printed ImagesCatholic Primers and English ProtestantismCatholic Printers in Reformation EnglandImages of the VirginImages of Christ and the Catholic CommunityConclusionChapter 4: Representations of Christ: Reforming the Imitatio ChristiProtestants and the God-ManFrom Corpus Christi to Christ DisplayedProtestant Identity and the Imitatio ChristiThe Suffering Christ: Meditation and ImitationSeeing the End: Resurrection and JudgmentConclusionChapter 5: Seeing God: Protestant Visions of the FatherTraditional Images and Recycled PrintsGod in Illustrated BiblesThe Exception of Divine VisionsGod at CreationConclusionChapter 6: Reforming the Deity: Symbolic Pictures of GodContinuity and ChangeA Reformed Icon?: Symbols of GodThe Devotional ImageConclusionConclusionAppendixBibliography