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Nov 29, 2021 · I examine John of Damascus’ defense of icons, upheld at the Council of Nicea II (AD 787). John argues that the making and honoring of images of Christ and the saints are in keeping with Scripture and Tradition.
St. John of Damascus was an Arab Christian monk and priest who lived from late 600 to late 700 C.E. He was a man of many talents, and did work in the fields of music, theology, law, and philosophy. This collection of his works includes three sermons he wrote and preached on icons in the church.
Dec 17, 2018 · St. John of Damascus penned the Treatises on the Divine Images in response to iconoclasm which swept across the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Leo III. Throughout his three treatise, St. John of Damascus works to distinguish veneration from worship, and he justifies icons imaging Jesus and the saints. As a modern reader the distinction between ...
Aug 8, 2008 · Eastern theologian for the whole church. While the controversy continued to rage, John spent his days at Mar Saba monastery in the hills 18 miles southeast of Jerusalem.
Dec 4, 2015 · Eventually to be a monk (and later a priest), when Byzantine Emperor Leo III (The Isurian) decreed the destruction of icons, John wrote brilliantly, exhaustively, and comprehensibly on the acceptable use of sacred images.
All agree that John of Damascus undertook a spirited defence of holy images in three separate publications. The earliest of these works, his Apologetic Treatises against those Decrying the Holy Images , secured his reputation.
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Nov 24, 2021 · John Damascene walked that path of beauty. He adored as beautiful the Trinity, “imaged by the sun, or light, or burning rays, or by a running fountain, or a full river, or by the mind, speech...
