ordained images of the Church, its hierarchy and liturgy to be spiritualized away. A true theology of images can be achieved only in a Christian context, as the next methodical step will definitively show. It belongs to the Areopagite to have caught up the whole spiritual energy of the Alexandrines and the Cappadocians in his work and at the same time to have banished definitively their tendency to threaten the Incarnation, the visible Church and the resurrection of the flesh.