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→The Iconoclastic Controversy
The Seventh Ecumenical Council (787) defended image veneration and in so doing clarified the principles behind it. To venerate an image is to venerate not its substance but the shared likeness. An icon of Christ affirms the reality of the human and the divine and enables contemplation on the person who is the model for theosis.
The Seventh Ecumenical Council (787) defended image veneration and in so doing clarified the principles behind it. To venerate an image is to venerate not its substance but the shared likeness. An icon of Christ affirms the reality of the human and the divine and enables contemplation on the person who is the model for theosis.
In the year 843 the iconoclastic controversy was finally laid to rest, and icons and their veneration were restored on the first Sunday in Lent. Ever since, this Sunday has been commemorated as the "Triumph of Orthodoxy" and is refered to as the "Sunday of Orthodoxy."
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