Images of the Divine: The Theology of Icons at the Seventh Ecumenical Council - Revised Edition

REV Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-04-14328-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 122, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 172 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

This book, newly revised and updated, examines the Eastern Church's theology of icons chiefly on the basis of the acta of the Seventh Ecumenical Council of 787.
The political circumstances leading to the outbreak of the iconclast controversy in the eighth century are discussed in detail, but the main emphasis is on the theological arguments and assumptions of the council participants. Major themes include the nature of tradition, the relationship between image and reality, and the place of christology.
Ultimately the argument over icons was about the accessibility of the divine. Icons were held by the iconophiles to communicate a deifying grace which raised the believer to participation in the life of God.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giakalis, Ambrosios

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, Henry Chadwick
Preface

I. Introduction
II. Icon and Tradition
III. Icon as an Agent of Truth
IV. Icon and Reality
V. Icon and Christology
VI. Icon and Worship
VII. The Significance of the Council

Afterword 2005

Abbreviations
Bibliography
Supplementary Bibliography
Index of Names and Places
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Ambrosios Giakalis, Ph.D. (1988) in Theology, University of Cambridge, was until his recent retirement metropolitan of Kozani in northern Greece.