Imago Dei The Byzantine Apologia for Icons
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
26.09.2011
Abbildungen
w. 50 ill.
Verlag
Princeton University PressSeitenzahl
224
Maße (L/B/H)
25.5/19.2/1.4 cm
Gewicht
656 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-691-14125-1
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, by popular revolts, by 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
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