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Iconoclasm

The drive to smash sacred images as idols — and the long quarrel it left behind

Iconoclasm is the movement that opposed making and venerating religious images, condemning them as idolatry. In the Byzantine East, iconoclast emperors enforced it until it was condemned at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787. The dispute did not end there: the impulse to reject images reappeared in the Reformed tradition, so traditions still differ over whether sacred images honor God or violate his command.

How it traveled

The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice
Nicaea · 787
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The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice — Epitome of the Definition of the Iconoclastic Conciliabulum held in Constantinople, A.D. 754. — part 1↗explains

The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice · The Ecumenical Councils

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice — Extracts from the Acts. Session I. — part 2↗challenges

The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice · The Ecumenical Councils

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice — Extracts from the Acts. Session VI.↗challenges

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice — The Canons of the Holy and Ecumenical Seventh Council. — Canon IX.↗challenges

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice — The Letter of the Synod to the Emperor and Empress. — part 1↗challenges

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On Idolatry., Idols Not to Be Made, Much Less Worshipped. Idols and Idol-Makers in the Same Category.↗explains

On Idolatry. · Apologetic

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice — The Canons of the Holy and Ecumenical Seventh Council. — Canon XVI.↗applies

The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice · The Ecumenical Councils

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Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church — CHAPTER 9. - OF COUNCILS AND THEIR AUTHORITY — part 3↗applies

Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice — Epitome of the Definition of the Iconoclastic Conciliabulum held in Constantinople, A.D. 754. — part 3↗challenges

The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice · The Ecumenical Councils

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice — Extracts from the Acts. Session II. — part 1↗challenges

The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice · The Ecumenical Councils

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice — Extracts from the Acts. Session IV.↗challenges

The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice · The Ecumenical Councils

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice — The Canons of the Holy and Ecumenical Seventh Council. — Canon XIII.↗applies

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice — The Divine Sacra Sent by the Emperors Constantine and Irene to the Most Holy and Most Blessed Hadrian, Pope of Old Rome.↗challenges

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The Letters of St. Jerome — From Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis, in Cyprus, to John, Bishop of Jerusalem. — part 1↗applies

The Letters of St. Jerome · Jerome

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice — Examination of the Caroline Books. — Authorship of the Caroline Books.↗explains

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice — Examination of the Caroline Books. — The Chief Cause of Trouble a Logomachy.↗applies

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice — Extracts from the Acts. Session III.↗challenges

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice — The Canons of the Holy and Ecumenical Seventh Council. — Canon VII.↗challenges

The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice · The Ecumenical Councils

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The Church History of Eusebius — Book VII — The Statue which the Woman with an Issue of Blood erected.↗applies

The Church History of Eusebius · Eusebius of Caesarea

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The Octavius of Minucius Felix., Argument: Although the Heathens Acknowledge Their Kings to Be Mortal, Yet They Feign that They are Gods Even Against Their Own Will, Not Because of Their Belief in Their Divinity, But in Honour of the Power that They Have Exerted. Yet a True God Has Neither Rising Nor Setting. Thence Octavius Criticises the Images and Shrines of the Gods.↗applies

The Octavius of Minucius Felix. · Minucius Felix

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