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Is all Christian art fundamentally blasphemous? That was the question posed aggressively by the Christian iconoclasts of the eighth century in a bitter controversy. The resounding answer ‘No’ from John of Damascus helped to secure the future of art in the service of Christ. Without his brilliant defense, both profound and at times earthy, we might well have had no icons, murals, and mosaics in...

that patens and chalices, thuribles, lamps and tables: all these are to be reverenced. For see, when Baltasar made the people serve from the sacred vessels, how God destroyed his kingdom.131 36 The fourth kind [of veneration] is that whereby the images seen by the prophets were worshipped and also the images of things to come (for it was through a vision of images that they saw God), as Aaron’s rod132 was an image of the mystery of the Virgin, and also the jar133 and the table;134 and when Jacob
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