iconomachy


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iconomachy

(ˌaɪkəˈnɒməkɪ)
n
opposition to the worship of images or icons
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iconomachy

opposition to icons or other forms of sacred imagery.
See also: Images
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Chapter Two sets Byzantine iconomachy alongside works by the novelists Walker Percy and Flannery O'Connor, to address Christ who 'came down from Heaven and was made human' (his abiding presence).
Image and Presence: A Christological Reflection on Iconoclasm and Iconophilia
Although Haldon has complained that others have ignored this work, Brubaker remarks more diplomatically that "The new understanding of Byzantine iconomachy explored in this book has not yet reached most mainstream historical handbooks"; although Paul Speck asserted something like it as early as 1981 (7).
Brubaker is correct that the Byzantines, while often referring to "iconoclasts" (eikonoklastai, "icon-smashers"), used a word for the iconoclastic movement (eikonomachia, "fighting against icons") that is more likely "iconomachy" than "iconoclasm" (3-4).
(35) Marion O' Connor, '"Imagine Me, Gentle Spectators": Iconomachy and The Winter's Tale', in Richard Dutton and Jean E.
Idolatry, iconoclasm and agency: visual experience in works by Lyly and Shakespeare

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