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What religious images are honored by the Eastern Rite Catholics?
The religions images honored by Eastern Rite Catholics are called icons.
Iconoclasm means the what of images based on religious beliefs?
Iconoclasm means the destruction or rejection of religious images or icons based on religious beliefs. It is often carried out as part of religious reform or as a response to the belief that the images are idolatrous.
Religious icons some of which are very beautiful and ornate are simply of a holy subject?
images
Religious icons some of which are very beautiful and ornate are simply of a holy subject.?
images
What were iconoclasts opposed to?
Icons. In the Orthodox religion, images of Jesus and the saints are worshipped as if they were Jesus or the saints themselves. At one period in the Byzantine Empire, a group of Emperors opposed this form of worship and moved to have the icons (religious images) destroyed: they were called iconoclasts. However the iconophiles won out, and the icons are still there (well, not in Byzantium but in the Orthodox Churches of Greece and Russia)
Why do Ukrainian Catholics use icons?
Not only Ukrainian Catholics use icons - many Catholics across the world do! They are simply a visual representation of important people for different people.
What caused the strain in the Christian church in 730?
In 730, the Byzantine emperor Leo III banned the use of icons. Icons are religious images used by Eastern Christians to aid their prayers.
Where did religious icons come from?
Most of the religious icons came from Russia.
What events caused a strain in the christian church in 730?
In 730, the Byzantine emperor Leo III banned the use of icons. Icons are religious images used by Eastern Christians to aid their prayers.
What event cause a strain in the Christian church in 730?
In 730, the Byzantine emperor Leo III banned the use of icons. Icons are religious images used by Eastern Christians to aid their prayers.
What were the people called that broke into churches and destroyed religious images?
The people who broke into churches and destroyed religious images were known as iconoclasts. This term specifically refers to those who opposed the veneration of icons and religious images, particularly during the Iconoclast Controversy in the Byzantine Empire and during the Protestant Reformation. Iconoclasm was driven by theological beliefs that rejected the use of images in worship, viewing them as idolatrous.
The Protestant condemnation of religious art resulted in iconoclasm across Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. What is iconoclasm?
Iconoclasm comes from the word iconoclast which means a breaker or destroyer of images, especially those set up for religious veneration. So iconoclasm is the breaking or destroying of (religious) icons/images
