The Church today, facing an iconic challenge
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14422/ryf.vol286.i1460.y2022.006Keywords:
Byzantium, iconophilia, iconophobia, relics, Islamism, Protestantism, BaroqueAbstract
The importance of the image in social life has experienced a historical crescendo, similar to that of its relevance in political, cultural and even economic spheres. The Catholic Church of Rome, after overcoming an arduous polemic with the Eastern Church, opted for iconophilia in the face of the iconoclastic dictates of some Byzantine emperors. That option, continued in time, allowed the veneration of images as an evangelizing and exemplary moral vehicle of the first magnitude. It reached its artistic splendor in the Baroque period, linked to the Counter-Reformation, opposed to the iconophobic impulses of Protestantism. Today, the deployment of the iconic potential and the profusion of the image is such that it is worth asking whether it is not time to take a stand on the matter.
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