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Three Treatises on the Divine Image

Author: J. St   Series: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press "Popular Patristics"

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In AD 726, the Byzantine emperor ordered the destruction of all icons, or religious images, throughout the empire, and icons were subject to an imperial ban that was to last, with a brief remission, until AD 843. A defender of icons, St John of Damascus wrote three treatises against "those who attack the holy images." He differentiates between the veneration of icons, which is a matter of expressing honor, and idolatry, which is offering worship to something other than God.

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Publisher
St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.
Published
1st April 2003
Edition
1st
Pages
163
ISBN
9780881412451

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