Theology of the Icon in the Orthodox Church
From the introduction
The Orthodox Church has preserved an immense wealth in both the realm of liturgical life and patristic thought, as well as in the realm of ecclesiastical art. We know that the veneration of icons holds a very important place, and this is because the icon is not merely an illustration, decoration, or even an illustration of the Holy Scriptures. It is something more: equal to the evangelical message, it is a liturgical vessel that participates fully in the liturgical life. Thus, the importance that the Church places on the depiction is explained—not on any representation, but on the specific depiction that it has shaped throughout its history, in its struggle against idolatry and heresies, in the image whose cost was the blood of many martyrs and confessors during the iconoclastic period: the Orthodox icon.
In the icon, the Church sees not only a form of Orthodox teaching but the universal expression of Orthodoxy, this very same Orthodoxy.
- Author: Leonidas Ouspensky
- Translation: Spyros Marinis
- Weight: 900 gr
- Dimensions: 14×21 cm
- Pages: 706, Language: Greek
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