
The Case for Icon Veneration - An Almost Comprehensive Response to Gavin Ortlund
Intellectual Catholicism
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The Importance of Self-Restraint
The main christian argument during this time against these kinds of effigies and altars and temples was that they believed that actually demons were involved. If we have an image directed towards a saint who is surely not a demon doesn't that change things? That set a different light and context that's important so anyway continuing origin says it is in consideration of these and many other such commands that christians not only avoid temples altars and images but are ready to suffer death when it is necessary rather than debase any such impiety the conception which they have of the most high god. But once again as we saw here right um images is not the best word here because it should refer to maybe
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