Protestantism (cont.)
Emphasized the Word (Bible text) over (Catholic) imagery: thus logocentric (word-oriented)
Primary expression: sermons and preaching (ex. Mather and Edwards)
emphasis on education, as facilitates reading, logic, and rhetoric appropriate to sermonizing and sermon-thought
Independent congregations
Focus on death reminds of frailty of life
Importance of the momento mori (́reminder of deathî) or vanitas; in imagery, usu. a skull or winged hourglass -- death, like salvation, can come at any time