Sacred Images Mariella Gable of what it means to

of what it means to be imago dei

ISBN: 978-1952826337

be it pleasant or ugly

Paperback: 362pp

He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Secretary of Studies at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception

Sacred Images Mariella Gable of what it means toBy St. John Damascene Mary H. Allies War is toil and trouble, wrote the poet John Dryden in 1697. Almost a thousand years before, a war in the Byzantine Empire proved no exception to this rule. Yet it was not a war of fire and sword, but of images and words, waged not in the name of domination, but of divine worship. It was the iconomachythe war of iconsnow known as the Iconoclastic Controversy. The Iconoclasts contended, in keeping with the Old Law