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To many modern Christians the question of icon veneration may seem a marginal issue in theology. To St Theodore the Studite, writing in the midst of the iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries, it was clear that iconoclasm is a serious error, which alienates its followers from God as much as any other heresy. That is to say, rejection of Christian veneration of images...

with two types of moderate iconoclasts. Some of them admitted that pictures could be made of Christ and the saints, but not that the images could be venerated. Others admitted that Christ could be portrayed as He appeared before His passion, but not as He was after His resurrection. Theodore argues that Christ can be the prototype of an image because of His humanity.14 He quotes St. Basil the Great, who says, “The honor given to the image passes over to the prototype.”15 In saying this, Basil was
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