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A treatise on the validity of using images as an aid to worship by St. John of Damascus (aka St. John Damascene), written while he lived under the second generation of Muslim rule in Syria. But it was also aimed at the Iconoclasts (image-breakers) who controlled the Christian Byzantine Empire at the time, and were not above killing artists.
St. John not only points out that icons support the doctrine of the Incarnation -- since God made flesh becomes visible and drawable -- but also that the written word (even the written Word of God) is nothing more or less than an image of bits of language. And that's just the beginning....
This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio
Author: St. John of Damascus
Date: 2007-04-29
Source: On holy images, followed by three sermons on the Assumption. Tr. by Mary H. Allies, 1898.
Keywords: Audiobook - Nonfiction; religion
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
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| DamasceneHolyImages_64kb_mp3.zip | 64Kbps MP3 ZIP | 79 MB |
| DamasceneHolyImages_vbr.m3u | VBR M3U | Stream |
| DamasceneHolyImages_vbr_mp3.zip | VBR ZIP | 20 MB |
| Audio Files | 128Kbps MP3 | Ogg Vorbis | 64Kbps MP3 | VBR MP3 |
| Part 1A | 19 MB | 12 MB | 9.5 MB | |
| Part 1B | 25 MB | 17 MB | 13 MB | |
| Part 1C | 5.9 MB | 3.7 MB | 3.0 MB | |
| Part 1D | 34 MB | 22 MB | 17 MB | |
| Part 2A | 21 MB | 14 MB | 11 MB | |
| Part 2B | 23 MB | 15 MB | 11 MB | |
| Part 2C | 3.3 MB | 2.2 MB | 1.6 MB | |
| Part 3A | 7.5 MB | 4.9 MB | 3.8 MB | |
| Part 3B | 6.9 MB | 5.2 MB | 10 MB | |
| Part 3C | 6.3 MB | 4.7 MB | 9.5 MB |
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