Three Treatises on the Divine Images (Biblia.com)

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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...

God, when he acquired the cave as a double inheritance for a tomb.22 Jacob venerated Esau his brother and Pharaoh the Egyptian, bowing in veneration over the head of his staff.23 They venerated, they did not worship. Jesus24 the son of Nave and Daniel venerated the angel of God, but they did not worship.25 The veneration of worship is one thing, veneration offered in honor to those who excel on account of something worthy is another. 9 But since this discourse is about the image and its veneration,

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