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The document discusses three main issues regarding icons: 1) How icons relate to the saints they depict, 2) Their status compared to other religious objects, and 3) Whether iconographic style is a higher art form. It summarizes the rulings of the 7th Ecumenical Council establishing the legitimacy of icon veneration. The Council stated that icons pass honor to their subjects, but do not receive the same worship as God. The document then examines the theology of St. Theodore the Studite, who clarified that ic

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New Liturgical Movement

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