Sacred Images Edwin O'Connor ISBN: 978-1685951382

ISBN: 978-1685951382

and thus redeem it

Dorothea and Nicholas

to express them in such a way that the path from man to God is illuminated

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Sacred Images Edwin O'Connor ISBN: 978-1685951382By St. John Damascene Mary H. Allies War is toil and trouble, wrote the poet John Dryden in 1697. Almost a thousand years before, a war in the Byzantine Empire proved no exception to this rule. Yet it was not a war of fire and sword, but of images and words, waged not in the name of domination, but of divine worship. It was the iconomachythe war of iconsnow known as the Iconoclastic Controversy. The Iconoclasts contended, in keeping with the Old Law