Timeline for What was the ante-Nicene Fathers' view on image veneration?
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| May 11, 2022 at 11:02 | comment | added | Ken Graham♦ | In any case, he is not disallowing the usage, but simply that homage (adoration) should not be given them. Celsus was a pagan philosopher and controversialist who had written a scathing attack on Christianity in his treatise The True Word. | |
| May 11, 2022 at 4:04 | comment | added | Hold To The Rod | @KenGraham I'm not sure I follow your comment. When Origen refers to "we" or "us" he's talking about what Christians do (to correct misrepresentation by Celsus & others). He's saying Christians don't pray or do honor to images. I agree though that he is not speaking against the use of art; he's criticizing the worship of art. | |
| May 11, 2022 at 3:34 | comment | added | Ken Graham♦ | This actually addresses nothing to the Christian concept of the veneration of images from a Christian artistic perspective. Origen of Alexandria Is addressing pagans not Christian art of the catacombs or in house churches. | |
| May 11, 2022 at 2:17 | history | answered | Hold To The Rod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |