Sacred Images Mariella Gable Paperback: 362pp

Paperback: 362pp

and few spiritual masters are better equipped to encourage participation in this art than Mother Mary Francis of the Poor Clares

He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Secretary of Studies at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception

and Part Three examines the rich symbolism which the Church Fathers derived from the Odyssey

Sacred Images Mariella Gable Paperback: 362ppBy St. John Damascene Mary H. Allies War is toil and trouble, wrote the poet John Dryden in 1697. Almost a thousand years before, a war in the Byzantine Empire proved no exception to this rule. Yet it was not a war of fire and sword, but of images and words, waged not in the name of domination, but of divine worship. It was the iconomachythe war of iconsnow known as the Iconoclastic Controversy. The Iconoclasts contended, in keeping with the Old Law