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Empire and
lasted through the 8th and the 9th centuries. The most
famous iconodules (proponents of the
veneration of icons)
during that time were
saints John...
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bitter and long-lived
religious dispute were the
iconodules, who
defended the
veneration of images.
Iconodule writers applied to
Constantine the derogatory...
- Theoktistos. The
empress had
iconodule sympathies and
deposed the patriarch, John VII,
replacing him with the
iconodule Methodios I in 843. This put an...
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veneration of an icon
could not be
idolatrous as the
iconoclasts believed. The
iconodule position was not
justified by
Christological arguments (as in the Council...
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derisively called "iconolaters" (εἰκονολάτρες). They are
normally known as "
iconodules" (εἰκονόδουλοι), or "iconophiles" (εἰκονόφιλοι).
These terms were, however...
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policy to
seize the
properties of
iconodules and monasteries, such as the rich
Stoudios Monastery,
whose influential iconodule abbot,
Theodore the Studite,...
- know. It has
often been ****umed that Theodore's
family belonged to the
iconodule party during the
first period of
Byzantine Iconoclasm.
There is however...
- of statues. Most
prominent was an icon of
Christ which became a
major iconodule symbol during the
Byzantine Iconoclasm, and a
chapel dedicated to the...
- was
married to Irene, an
iconodule.
Realizing the
division in his
realm he
pursued a path of
conciliation towards the
iconodules,
previously declared heretical...
- so is
beyond comprehension. [under discussion] Thus,
Muslims are not
iconodules and do not
attribute forms to God. God is
instead described and referred...
