Aniconic Worship and the Apologetic Tradition: A Note on Canon 36 of the Council of Elvira-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Aniconic Worship and the Apologetic Tradition: A Note on Canon 36 of the Council of Elvira

Published:1976-12 Issue:4 Volume:45 Page:428-433
ISSN:0009-6407
Container-title:Church History
language:en
Short-container-title:Church Hist

Author:

Grigg Robert

Abstract

It is well known that the spokesmen for the early Christian church were hostile to religious images.1 They regarded the Old Testament prohibition against images (Exodus 20:4, Deuteronomy 5:8) as binding upon Christians.2 But even though Christian apologists like Clement of Alexandria and Origen cited the authority of this prohibition,3 they defended the aniconic worship of Christians from pagan attack by borrowing heavily from pagan writers. The arguments they borrowed portrayed the cult of images as a ridiculously inappropriate form of worship, one that degraded the very gods it sought to honor by likening them to base material, shaped by mere craftsmen.4

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Religious studies,History,Cultural Studies

Reference67 articles.

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2. The Edict of Milan (313);Anastos;Mélanges Venance Grumel: Revue des études byzantines,1967

3. Tertullian De idololatria 4

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