A companion to Byzantine iconoclasm
By: edited by Mike Humphreys
Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition -- volume 99; Brill's companions to the Christian tradition -- v. 99.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9789004339903; 9789004462007
Subjects: Iconoclasm
Description: "For more than a millennium these ritual damnations of those who argue against the adoration of icons in Christian worship have been proclaimed by the Orthodox Church on the first Sunday of Lent, when the "Feast of Orthodoxy" is celebrated. They are only one part of a document called The Synodikon of Orthodoxy, whose reading is the centre piece of the feast"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.