5 Solas Idols Erected in UK

Sculptures "correspond with the five solas which summarise the spiritual themes at the heart of the Reformation: sola scriptura (by scripture alone), sola fide (by faith alone), solus Christus (Christ alone), soli Deo gloria (glory to God alone), and sola gratia (by grace alone)."

http://reformation2017.org/sculpture/

 

More photos here:

Archetypes Exhibition (@archetypes.sculpture) • Instagram photos and videos

 

That's the site of the exhibition, it's a church historically important to the Reformation (Martin Bucer preached and was buried there).

But the exhibition is sponsored by Reformation2017/Jubilee Centre.

I found some background on the Jubilee Centre and the 5 Solas sculptures:

THE JUBILEE CENTRE...talk given by Jonathan Tame, Director of the Centre (pdf)

"Michael Schluter....attended Nairobi Baptist Church where students were concerned about the different types of government being adopted by the newly independent nations of East Africa. Michael wished to discover how the tenets of Biblical laws could apply to modern industrial nations. This life long quest led to the founding of The Jubilee Centre in Mill Road in 1983, where he received the support of Roy Clements of Eden Baptist Church."

"Jonathan lived and worked in Romania and Switzerland for over 20 years and this led to him being encouraged by the benefits the work that Calvin and Luther brought to Europe by the Reformation. The Reformation came to Cambridge in the early 1520s, and the city was instrumental in helping disseminate the message in this country."

"the city of Geneva was transformed from a backward and declining town, to a dynamic centre of economic, cultural and spiritual renewal by Calvin’s teaching. Calvin’s birth, 500 years earlier, was commemorated in 2009 in Geneva by a huge sculpture. The sculpture represented the Decalogue or Ten Commandments."

"In order to celebrate the role that Cambridge had in bringing the Reformation to England, it is proposed, with the support of John Binns, vicar of St Mary’s, that five sculptures, illustrating basic themes of Christian tradition, be exhibited in the churchyard. Jonathan hopes that the sculptures will create a space for spiritual reflection."

 

Another sculpture by the same artist is 'Decalogue' a depiction of ten giant disembodied fingers of God:

Calvin College professor collaborates with Romanian sculptor

"the ten gold fingers he created (from fiberglass coated with gold leaf) stand in a circle....The fingers are tall—around 16 feet high—and they curve inward, as though they were attached to two cupped hands."

[It] was originally created for celebration of John Calvin’s 500th birthday in Geneva, and it has traveled elsewhere. People often have powerful reactions to standing or sitting inside the sculpture, Mocan said: “I will never forget. It was a lady in Bellflower that said, ‘I feel happy here. I don’t ever want to leave.’”

Liviu Mocan's most famous work, the Decalogue sculpture in Geneva, was erected in 2009 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of John Calvin's birth

 

The sculptor explains the importance of the five Solas: