Author: St. John of Damascus. Translation by Andrew Louth
Publisher: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
Year: 2003
Cover: Paperback
Type of Paper:
Weight:
Number of Pages: 164
Format: 7 x 5 in
ISBN: 978-0-88141-245-1

Description:

In AD 726, the Byzantine emperor ordered the destruction of all icons, or religious images, throughout the empire, and icons were subject to an imperial ban that was to last, with a brief remission, until AD 843. A defender of icons, St John of Damascus wrote three treatises against "those who attack the holy images." He differentiates between the veneration of icons, which is a matter of expressing honor, and idolatry, which is offering worship to something other than God.

Content:

introduction

Treatise 1.

Treatise 2.

Treatise 3.

Bibliography