John of Damascus part 27
Epiphanius of Salamis (d. 403) tore down a curtain in a church in Palestine because it had a picture of Christ or a saint....
John of Damascus part 26
Long before the outbreak in the eighth century there were isolated cases of persons who feared the ever-growing cult of images and saw in...
John of Damascus part 25
A curious story, that illustrates the length to which theworship of images had gone by the eighth century, is told in the “New Garden”...
John of Damascus part 24
The icon seems to have been in some sort the channel through which the saint was approached; it has an almost sacramental virtue in...
John of Damascus part 23
Long afterwards the Frankish bishops in the eighth century were still unable to understand forms that in the East were natural and obvious, but...
John of Damascus part 22
Distinct from the admission of images is the question of the way they are treated. What signs of reverence, if any, did the first...
John of Damascus part 21
People prayed with extended arms to represent a cross (Origen, “Hom. in Exod.”, iii, 3, Tertullian, “de Orat.”, 14). So also to make the...
John of Damascus part 20
Although representations of the Crucifixion do not occur till later, the cross, as the symbol of Christianity, dates from the very beginning. Justin Martyr...
John of Damascus part 19
We notice, however, in the first centuries a certain reluctance to express the pain and humiliation of the Passion of Christ. Whether to spare...
John of Damascus part 18
The famous statue of the Good Shepherd in the Lateran Museum was made as early as the beginning of the third century, the statues...
