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Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) by Jaroslav Pelikan; With a New Foreword by Judith Herrin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A sweeping account of the controversies surrounding the worship of images in the early Byzantine church In 726, the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, issued an edict that all religious images in the empire were to be destroyed, a directive that was later endorsed by a synod of the church in 753 under his son, Constantine V. If the policy of Iconoclasm had succeeded, the entire history of Christian art—and of the Christian church, at least in the East—would have been altered. Iconoclasm was defeated by Byzantine politics, popular revolts, monastic piety, and, most fundamentally of all, by theology, just as it had been theology that the opponents of images had used to justify their actions. Analyzing an intriguing chapter in the history of ideas, the renowned scholar Jaroslav Pelikan shows how a faith that began by attacking the worship of images ended first in permitting and then in commanding it. Pelikan charts the theological defense of icons during the iconoclastic controversies of the eighth and ninth centuries, whose high point came in 787, when the Second Council of Nicaea restored the cult of images in the church. He demonstrates how the dogmas of the Trinity and the Incarnation ev

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Author

Jaroslav Pelikan; With a New Foreword by Judith Herrin

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691141251

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Religion, Christian