The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (787)

by Richard Price

Book Overview

Two volume set
The Second Council of Nicaea (787) decreed that religious images were to set up in churches and venerated. It thereby established the cult of icons as a central element in the piety of the Orthodox churches, as it has remained ever since. In the West its decrees received a new emphasis in the Counter-Reformation, in the defence of the role of art in religion. It is a text of prime importance for the iconoclast controversy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789621577
• ISBN13: 9781789621570
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 796 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.8" x 8.2"