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...

to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.”39 But the law was not an image, but a foreshadowing of an image; therefore the same apostle says, “For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not being itself the image of the realities.”40 If then the law prohibits images, while being itself a depiction of the image in advance, what shall we say? If the tabernacle is a shadow and the figure of a figure, how then can the law command that images be not drawn? But these things are not

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