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#703 - Gavin Ortlund on Icons (REBUTTED)

The Counsel of Trent

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The Council of Hyeria, a Big Council, Was Not Ecumenical

In 754, there's a large council, the Council of Hyeria, attended by 338 bishops. Irene: This is condemning the iconophile position on Christological grounds. She says that for non-crystalogical images, they're just pagan and they're demonic. For centuries afterward, Nicaea II was not added to the list of ecumenical councils in Syria, Palestine.

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