Editorial Preface: This article was written by Dr. Peter Brooke, an Orthodox Christian painter and writer living in Brecon, Wales. He is the author of “Albert Gleizes: For and Against the Twentieth Century,” a major biography of one of the most important pioneers of Cubism. Dr. Brooke studied painting in France with the distinguished potter […]
This is post 4 of 5 in the series “The Icon: Sign of Unity or Division?” (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) What Is It a Sign of? Among Western Christians, there is a very clear interest in icons. Following Orthodox Christians themselves, certain Catholics and Protestants have rediscovered canonical icons, that is, Christian images […]
This is post 3 of 5 in the series “The Icon: Sign of Unity or Division?” (read Part 1 and Part 2) Some Other Points The Silence of the New Testament To support their theological arguments, the iconoclasts said that the silence of the New Testament on the question of Christian images supports their rejection […]
This is post 2 of 5 in the series “The Icon: Sign of Unity or Division?” (Continued from here) “The honor [or insult] given to an image rebounds onto the person represented.” This well-known sentence comes from a work of St. Basil the Great On the Holy Spirit 18, 45 where he talks about the relation between […]