The Case for Icon Veneration - An Almost Comprehensive Response to Gavin Ortlund
Intellectual Catholicism
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The Importance of Image Veneration
The council was trying to defend even if you look at the pseudonymous sources that image veneration went back to the apostles. The word itself is used in all kinds of different ways, not just bowing and kissing. Gregory the theologian refutes this myth in the fourth century when he bids us all, revere Bethlehem and venerate the manger. Oh, venerate a material object that is somehow a symbol of the incarnation,. A symbol of the coming of the Lord into the world, right.
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