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Great online books on Christology.

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  • #2
    wolfsbane
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    PatricaMcKay2 wrote: »
    A great online resource on Christological thought in the 5 th, 6 th and 7 th centuries.

    The first covers also earlier Fathers. Though they focus on the East there is also a discussion of the works of St Leo the Great.

    http://holytrinitymission.org/books/english/fathers_florovsky_2.htm

    http://holytrinitymission.org/books/english/fathers_florovsky_3.htm
    Thanks for that, Patrica! I'm looking forward to this part of it, something I'm meant to look up for a long time:
    The Iconoclastic Controversy
    http://holytrinitymission.org/books/english/fathers_florovsky_3.htm#_Toc47795120


  • #3
    PatricaMcKay2
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    wolfsbane wrote: »
    Thanks for that, Patrica! I'm looking forward to this part of it, something I'm meant to look up for a long time:
    The Iconoclastic Controversy
    http://holytrinitymission.org/books/english/fathers_florovsky_3.htm#_Toc47795120

    Well just be careful there its written by a Russian Orthodox.

    What is forgotten that the vast majority of the western Church rejected what the Eastern Orthodox call the Seventh Ecumenical council which finally enshrined their current views on Icon veneration, though it was accepted by the Pope of Rome. Roman Catholics dont like to be reminded that people who they admire like Charlemagne and St Agobard were very opposed it. The west did have images in its Churches though however they werent venerated and I think its fair to say that the excesses of veneration of Icons in the Byzantine East were never reached at anytime in the west.

    The Assyrian Church of the East, based primarily in northern Syria, Iraq and Iran which has very ancient roots going back to the 2 nd century is as strictly Iconoclast as the traditional Presbyterians.


  • #4
    CrossReach
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    PatricaMcKay2 wrote: »
    The west did have images in its Churches though however they werent venerated and I think its fair to say that the excesses of veneration of Icons in the Byzantine East were never reached at anytime in the west.

    What? Just look around you. Roman Catholicism is rich in image veneration. It was the EOC who restricted their veneration to 2D images, while the RCC went with the 3D images. Some of them walk around the streets on a particular day with one of Mary on a stretcher.


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