ICONOCLASM, EARLY HERETICS AND CATHOLIC-ORTHODOX SPLIT | Facts and ...
Iconoclasts are people who criticize deeply held ideas or established institutions as founded on ignorance or superstitions. !
Worshiping of idols is of the devil
Iconoclasm is the intentional destruction of religious icons
Iconoclasts are people who criticize deeply held ideas about the focus of “idolatry.” Occasionally,or Biblical Iconoclasm established institutions as founded on ignorance or superstitions.
There were two sorts of iconoclasm in the Bible: the demolition of pagan deity altars, and break idolatry
The iconoclasts maintained that because God was unseen and limitless, he could not be represented in images.
rejected some sorts of iconography, they did not completely dismiss art, and some, like Constantine V, were great supporters of architecture and art.
religions that abhor idolatry, such as the Abrahamic religions.
Some of these people believed that symbols were insulting to God and/or that they backed Muslims’ and Jews’ claims that their religions were more closely aligned with God’s will than Christianity was.
The icon is the product of a baptized pagan experience
this article, we have the history of icons throughout the ages
The most notable iconoclastic occurrence in the Scripture is the Golden Calf occurrence, in which Moses led the demolition of the idol that the Israelites had built when Moses had been on Mount Sinai (Exodus 32). The following scriptural passages authorize such behavior:
• Leviticus 26:1: “Do not construct deities or set up a figure or a holy monument for yourselves, and do not establish a carved monument in your territory to bend down before it”, the Bible says.
• Numbers 33:52: “Force out all previous occupants of the property. Eliminate all of their sculpted pictures and cast deities, as well as all of their high positions”.
• Deuteronomy 7:25: “You are to destroy the pictures of their deities in the fire. Do not desire the silver or gold on them, and never grab it for yourself, or one will be trapped by it since it is abhorrent to the Lord your God
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The largest iconoclast in religious scholarship was King Josiah of Judah, who eventually razed the altar at Bethel, something that even Jehu had preserved, and also launched a crusade to remove all heathen and Yahwist sanctuaries in his dominion save the Temple of Jerusalem.
many Christians would rather have died than make offerings to the idols of Roman deities, and even eating a meal offered in pagan sanctuaries was forbidden for early Christians.
as Christianity moved away from its Jewish origins, it soon started to include “pagan” customs such as the veneration of icons of Mary and Jesus, while still detesting depictions of pagan gods.
✯Between 726 and 730, Byzantine Emperor Leo III Isaurian commanded the dismantling of a figure of Jesus conspicuously displayed over Constantinople’s royal entrance
which Leo came to consider as confirmation of Divine punishment in response to Christian idolatry
In 740, when Leo died, his prohibition on icons was upheld by his son Constantine V during his rule.
churchmen who backed this approach at the Iconoclast Council, in which 338 bishops attended and explicitly denounced the adoration of icons. The following curses were pronounced during this council: “If someone dares to use material hues to symbolize the holy form of the Word after the Incarnation, let him be accursed!” and “If somebody tries to reproduce the shapes of the saints in inanimate images with worthless material colors (because this thought is foolish and given by the devil), allow him to be accursed
(because this thought is foolish and given by the devil), allow him to be accursed!”
Monks formed an underground system of anti-iconoclasts.
✯Saint Benedict’s monks destroy an image of Apollo, worshiped in the Roman Empire
❁A number of Byzantine emperors, Klaun the Syrian (Leo III), predominated the movement of destroying icons, rejecting and even forbidding their depiction. The church took a good period of about a century and a half, despite its opposition to this heresy, until it triumphed over it. Several councils were held, the last of which was the Seventh Ecumenical Council
✯A Christian movement was active in it with the support of Emperor Leo III the Isaurian
Prohibition of reverence for icons
The most notable of Liu's legislative reforms concerned religious matters, particularly the prohibition of icon veneration ("iconbreaking", therefore, icon-breaking is the "icon-breaker").[8] After the notable success of the attempt to impose baptism on all Jews and Montanists in the empire (722), Leo issued a series of decrees against the worship of images (726–729).[9] Such a ban on a custom that had been in place for centuries seems to have been motivated by a genuine desire to raise public morals, and has been welcomed.
The demolition of icons following a theological interpretation of the ancient promise of the Ten Commandments, and the prohibition of making or worshiping “engraved images” (Exodus: chapter 20 verse 4, Deuteronomy: chapter 5 verse 8). This theological topic was discussed during the two periods of iconoclasm in the Byzantine Empire in the eighth and ninth centuries, and discussions were about the etiquette or authenticity of images depicting sacred figures, including Christ, the Virgin, and saints.
Arianism
Attributed to Arius (c. 250 - 336)
There are inscriptions on the baptismal frescoes in one of the archaeological Arian churches that remain today in Italy
✯Some Protestant reformers, notably Huldrych Zwingli, and John Calvin, advocated for the destruction of religious icons by citing the Ten Commandments’ prohibition break idolatry
✯Cathedral of Saint Martin Reliefs (Utrecht – Netherlands)
An example of religious Iconoclasm wherein relief statues were heavily damaged by Calvinists
✯Destruction of religious images by the Reformed in Zurich, 1524
Iconoclasm also became a major influence in Protestant England, particularly during the time following up to and during Oliver Cromwell’s Puritan administration. Bishop Joseph Hall of Norwich recorded the events of 1643 when soldiers and civilians invaded his church, prompted by a parliamentary law against “superstition and idol worship”.
The reformer William Dowsing He stated: “We dismantled nearly a hundred superstitious images, including seven friars caressing a nun, a depiction of God and Christ, and several other extremely superstitious images. And 200 had broken down before I arrived. We removed two inscriptions and smashed a large stone cross on the church’s roof. We dismantled nearly a hundred superstitious images, including seven friars caressing a nun, a depiction of God and Christ, and several other extremely
✯lead, North Korea outlawed crosses and symbols in private residences, as well as Buddhist or even other religious shrines, and replaced them with iconic images of Kim Il Sung. Pyongyang, dubbed the “Jerusalem of the East”, was bereft of churches until recently when the government erected a solitary official church, to which foreign visitors are frequently welcomed.
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Philosophical Iconoclasts
In this context, Albert Einstein could also be considered an iconoclast for questioning Newtonian physics in the early 20th century.
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