Christian Heresies of the
Eighth Century:
Iconoclasts:
Leo de Isaurian held that
the veneration of sacred images was idolatry. This outbreak commenced about the
year 723 and led to much violence. This error was condemned by thee
Second Council of Nicea in the year 787.
Iconoclast is a person who destroys
icons,
that is, sacred paintings or sculpture. Conversely, people who revere or
venerate religious images are called iconodules.
Iconoclasm (Eikonoklasmos, "Image-breaking") is the
name of the heresy that in the eighth and ninth centuries disturbed the peace of
the Eastern Church, caused the last of the many breaches with Rome that prepared
the way for the schism of Photius in 858 and the Great Schism of the 11th
century, and was echoed on a smaller scale in the Frankish kingdom in the West.
The story in the East is divided into two separate persecutions of the
Catholics, at the end of each of which stands the figure of an image-worshipping
Empress (Irene and Theodora).
This error was taken up by Islam and many Protestant
Reformers.
Iconoclasm, Catholic
Iconoclasm, general
Iconoclasts
Iconoclastic Crisis
Adoptionists:
Elipandus, Archbishop of Toledo,
Spain, claimed that
Christ
was born a human only, and was not divine until his
baptism,
at which point he was adopted as the Son by God the Father.
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