Old Saint Peter's and the Iconoclastic Controversy

2013 ◽  
pp. 214-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles B. McClendon
Keyword(s):  
Iconoclastic Controversy

Classical Conceptions of Visuality and Representation in John of Damascus' Defense of Holy Images1

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-308
Author(s):  
James A. Francis
Keyword(s):  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Second Sophistic ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
John Of Damascus ◽  
History Of ◽  
Classical Culture ◽  
Common Era ◽  
Iconoclastic Controversy

The Defense of Holy Images by John of Damascus stands as the archetypal exposition of the Christian theology of images. Written at the outbreak of the Iconoclastic Controversy, it has been mostly valued for its theological content and given scholarly short shrift as a narrowly focused polemic. The work is more than that. It presents a complex and profound explication of the nature of images and the phenomenon of representation, and is an important part of the “history of looking”in western culture. A long chain of visual conceptions connects classical Greek and Roman writers, such as Homer and Quintilian, to John: the living image, the interrelation of word and image, and image and memory, themes elaborated particularly in the Second Sophistic period of the early Common Era. For John to deploy this heritage so skillfully to the thorny problem of the place of images in Christianity, at the outbreak of a violent conflict that lasted a further 100 years after his writing, manifests an intellect and creativity that has not been sufficiently appreciated. The Defense of Holy Images, understood in this context, is another innovative synthesis of Christianity and classical culture produced by late antique Christian writers.

The Iconoclastic Controversy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian E. Daley, SJ
Keyword(s):  
Fifth Century ◽  
Mosaic Image ◽  
John Of Damascus ◽  
Iconoclastic Controversy

Earlier Eastern Christian authors saw the veneration of images as idolatrous. Yet from the late fifth century, representations of Christ and the saints grew increasingly popular. Official hostility also grew. In 726, Emperor Leo III ordered a mosaic image of Christ to be removed from the palace in Constantinople. Controversy continued through the middle of the following century. Key figures were Emperor Constantine V, a critic of image-veneration, and Patriarch Nicephorus, whose writings in its defense provided—along with the council at Nicaea in 787—the main theological arguments linking this practice with the orthodox understanding of the person of Christ. Other important defenders were Patriarch Germanus of Constantinople, the monk John of Damascus, and the monastic leader Theodore of Stoudios. The conflict was finally resolved on March 11, 843, by the gesture of a procession with icons. The veneration of images was now accepted as standard Church practice.

scholarly journals The transfiguration at Shivta. Retracing early Byzantine iconography

Zograf ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Maayan-Fanar
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Negev Desert ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Christian Iconography ◽  
Iconoclastic Controversy ◽  
Early Byzantine

The Transfiguration constitutes one of the most important events in the New Testament. Yet, only few pre-iconoclastic examples of the Transfiguration scene have survived: S. Apollinaire in Classe, Ravenna, St. Catherine Monastery, Sinai and Porec in Istria, each has its unique iconography. Therefore, scholars have concluded that the Transfiguration scene became widespread only after the iconoclastic controversy. We aim to show, that Transfiguration scene in Shivta, an early Byzantine settlement in the Negev desert, allows a glimpse into the early Christian iconography of the well-known scene, providing a missing link to its development in the post-iconoclastic period.

Iconoclastic Controversy in Cyprus:

2017 ◽  
pp. 25-54
Author(s):  
Nico Carpentier
Keyword(s):  
Iconoclastic Controversy

scholarly journals A Byzantine Logician’s “Image” within the Second Iconoclastic Controversy. Nikephoros of Constantinople

Scrinium ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana Yu. Goncharko ◽  
Dmitry N. Goncharko
Keyword(s):  
Education Program ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
Educational Standard ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Iconoclastic Controversy

The article is devoted to the study of the single example of logical education in Byzantium – the famous two pages from the hagiography of Patriarch Nikephoros (†829) containing the list of chapter headings copied by Ignatios the Diacon from an elementary textbook of logic. It is argued that, during the disputes of the second iconoclastic controversy, Patriarch Nikephoros implemented almost all the elements of logical knowledge listed by Ignatios. The article represents a short overview connecting the standard logical topics from the 8th- and 9th-century education program with the variety of arguments and techniques used by Nikephoros in the Major Apology and the Antirrhetics. The authors try to reconstruct the “image” of Patriarch Nikephoros as a logician and to describe the logical educational standard of his epoch.


The Antiphonetes Icon — Footnote to the Iconoclastic Controversy

1975 ◽  
Vol 93 (310) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Terence Towers
Keyword(s):  
Iconoclastic Controversy
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