The Case for Icon Veneration - An Almost Comprehensive Response to Gavin Ortlund
Intellectual Catholicism
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The Council of Nicaea's Nonsensical Argument
The council of Nicaea says that painting Christ constrains the divine nature. Hirea is basically saying, look, by painting an image of God, Jesus Christ, you're somehow constraining the infinite Godhead and making it share in the finitude of the created flesh. But I mean, isn't that what the incarnation was, in a sense, that is to say that Jesus was still the infinite invisible eternal God? That the incarnation in no way takes that away.
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