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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...

to what Christ Himself said, that He is the son of man, (do not be surprised at this) we must say that He is circumscribed; for every man is circumscribed, because he is also embodied. This is the truth. 41. If it was in reference to His bodily appearance, as you say, that Christ said, “He who has seen me has seen the Father,”37 then He must necessarily have by nature all those qualities which the Father has; for thus the imprint is accurate. But the Father is formless, shapeless, uncircumscribable;
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