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To: matthewrobertolson

There’s no shame in iconoclasm, since God is the ultimate iconoclast.


4 posted on 09/07/2013 1:32:41 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
God is the ultimate iconoclast

In "A Grief Observed" by C. S. Lewis, I believe he uses that phrase.

13 posted on 09/07/2013 2:02:21 PM PDT by memyselfandi59
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To: Boogieman
There’s no shame in iconoclasm, since God is the ultimate iconoclast.

Yes there is: fundamentally iconoclasm denies the reality of the Incarnation. Christ, while fully Divine, consubtantial and coeternal with the Father and the Spirit, is also fully human, of a body and rational soul subsisting, like us in all things excepting sin. He is thus, as we are, depictable.

You might reread Genesis -- God does not smash icons of Himself, He creates them: "...come let Us make Man in our image and likeness..." In the Greek LXX, the word Englished as image is iconos, icon.

20 posted on 09/07/2013 2:44:43 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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