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ICONSnot just a click on the computer screen, but

• WINDOWS TO HEAVEN

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3 Questions

• Arent you worshipping Idols?
• Why do they look so Weird?
• What good are they?

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1. Arent you worshipping Idols?

• 10 Commandments in Exodus 202f
• 1 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
• 2 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,
  

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Iconoclasm

• Iconoclasts 730 850 A.D.
• Imperial State authority power
• Icons were Wrong
• Icons were smashed
• (con icon)
• Iconodules (pro Icon)
• --lay people
• Monasteries
• Theologians St. John of Damascus

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God the Iconographer

• Colossians 115
• He (Christ) is the
• image of the invisible God.
• in Greek image icon
• the Christ is the
• invisible God made visible
• John 149
• Jesus said to him
• He who has seen Me
• has seen the Father

No Graven statues Icon 2 d
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ICON MADE WITHOUT HUMAN HANDS
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Saints

• All Icons are icons of Christ

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St. Luke the Iconographer
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THE 7TH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL

• Define that Holy Icons should be
• Exhibited
• Contemplated
• Kissed
• Venerated (proskynisis)
• Not worshipped (latreia)
• transmit the love worship
• to the Prototype
• Triumph of Orthodox Sunday (1st S. of Lent)

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2. Why do they look so Weird?

• Gospels in colour
• (not mere art)
• not realistic
• flat 2 dimensional (spiritual v. secular)
• inverse Perspective ascetic
• stylised
• abstract Poetic

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Some Ground Rules about the writing of icons

• no Graven Images
• only 2 dimensional representations
• no depicting of God the Father
• no ego for the iconographer
• fasting and prayer
• anonymous
• instruments, brushes, etc. are consecrated
• not free for all for Iconographer
• manuals to help follow the Tradition
• copies the Tradition

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3. What good are they?

• not just religious art
• not holy pictures Obraz
• -- not just decoration
• not education, teaching illiterate
• not fill empty space on the wall
• Windows to Heaven

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Icons in Liturgy Temple

• Presence of
• the Divine
• Theology of Beauty

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CHRIST THE LIFE GIVER
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THE OLD TESTAMENT TRINITY
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THE THEOTOKOS
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The Gospels in Colour Healing the Soul
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