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John Damascene, one-time senior civil servant in the Umayyad Arab Empire, became a monk near Jerusalem in the early years of the eighth century. He never set foot in the Byzantine Empire, yet his influence on Byzantine theology was ultimately determinative, and beyond that his theological work became a key resource for Western theology from Scholasticism to Romanticism. His searching criticism of Imperial Byzantine iconoclasm earned him harsh condemnation from the Byzantine iconoclasts. This is
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- Author
- Andrew Louth
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199275274
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Religion, Christian, World History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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