Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 54
And may Christ fill you with the joy of His resurrection, most holy flock of Christ, Christian people, chosen race, body of the Church,...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 53
If any man is to have his foolish way, in a short time the whole Organisation of the Church will be reduced to nothing....
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 52
The fourth kind of worship is that of images seen by the prophets. They saw God in sensible vision, and images of future things,...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 51
Thus, those who approached through the apostles obtained their cures. Thus the shadow, and winding-sheets, and girdles of the apostles worked healings. (Acts 5.15)...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 50
What we find worshipped in Scripture, and in how many ways we show worship to creatures
First, those places in which God, who alone is...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 49
On the kinds of Adoration.
The first kind is the worship of latreia, which we give to God, who alone is adorable by nature, and...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 48
The Son of God in person did not take the nature of the angels: He took the nature of man. The angels did not...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 47
Who first made an Image.
In the beginning God begot His only begotten Son, His word, the living image of Himself, the natural and unchangeable...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 46
Fourth Chapter. What an Image is, what it is not; and how each Image is to be set forth.
Bodies as having form and shape...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 45
Anyone would say that our incapacity for reaching the contemplation of intellectual things, and our need of familiar and cognate mediums, make it necessary...
