Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons by Jaroslav Pelikan

Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Jaroslav Pelikan

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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 ...

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