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Three Treatises on the Divine Images

John of Damascus,John of Reading,Andrew Louth,Gilbert W. Cole

Published by St. Vladimir's Seminary Press in 2003-04-01

In AD 726, the Byzantine emperor ordered the destruction of all icons, or religious images, throughout the empire, and icons were subject to an imperial ban that was to last, with a brief remission, until AD 843. A defender of icons, St John of Damascus wrote three treatises against "those who attack the holy images." He differentiates between the veneration of icons, which is a matter of expressing honor, and idolatry, which is offering worship to something other than God.

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