How Love for the Image Cast out Fear of It in Early Christianity

Iconoclastic and iconophilic impulses have long vied for pre-eminence in Christianity, coming to one particularly fraught crisis point in the Byzantine Iconomachy of the eighth and ninth centuries. Funding both impulses, this paper argues, is a profound Platonic ambivalence about the image. For Plat...

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Main Author: Carnes, Natalie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2017]
In: Religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-15
Further subjects:B Theodore of Stoudios
B Platonism
B Plato
B Icon
B Iconoclasm
B Image
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