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The Case for Icon Veneration - An Almost Comprehensive Response to Gavin Ortlund

Intellectual Catholicism

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The Role of Image in the Cult

Images were always used in the christian cult especially for saint veneration hence they always had a cultic use which changed over time. The authorization to create a new sacred art is a apostolic origin and so i'd say this just simply gives the practice validity from the start that not only that art can be sacred but it is endorsed by the apostles there's the argument from indefectable identity. In next to this chapter 18 verse 7 you know Moses he meets his father-in-law and he bows down and kisses him and they're reconnecting  and when we kiss and bow to the images of the saints we're doing what Moses didWe're not honoring something dead something no

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