On the Removal of Idols
i. That we have images in churches and houses of God is wrong and contrary to the first commandment.

Preface: The treatise by Andreas Karlstadt, Von Abtuhung der Bylder, was published in Wittenberg in January 1522.

Introduction: That the widespread iconoclasm of the Reformation represented a necessary step for the development of modern Christianity, and one could say also of Western culture, is an unquestioned and unquestionable assumption.