Orthodox icons history

Orthodox icons history Although the Orthodox Church exists within certain factions opposed to the image, but there is also a positive Dekor church's basic line, and he increasingly dominant. This is the tradition of the Church. This tradition has proved that in the church outset a clear understanding of the significance of Dekor, Church's attitude has never been the same image, this attitude is derived from the church on the Christian doctrine of the incarnation, according to this doctrine, the sacred imageIt is inherent in the nature of Christianity, because Christianity is the revelation of the word of God is not only the words, but the revelation of God's image, this image is the God-man Jesus Christ. 

The Church teaches that according to city Trinity Dekor two incarnations of this fact, and this shows that the image of Christ is not in contradiction with the law of the Old Testament, but on the contrary, it is a direct result of the implementation and the Old Testament prophecy. Because there is the image of the New Testament in the Old Testament ban as a precondition. Regardless of which onlookers how strange is, but the church itself is the case - the existence of the image directly from the Old Testament does not exist, which is its result and finish. This is John of Damascus maintenance Dekor set forth the idea in London

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