Sacred Images Pieper In the teaching of Augustine

In the teaching of Augustine of Hippo—as in that of the Common Doctor of the Church

and John together represent the ultimate story—telling of the events upon which hung the eternal destiny of every man

Its “windows” include the works of—among others—Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James

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Sacred Images Pieper In the teaching of AugustineBy St. John Damascene Mary H. Allies War is toil and trouble, wrote the poet John Dryden in 1697. Almost a thousand years before, a war in the Byzantine Empire proved no exception to this rule. Yet it was not a war of fire and sword, but of images and words, waged not in the name of domination, but of divine worship. It was the iconomachythe war of iconsnow known as the Iconoclastic Controversy. The Iconoclasts contended, in keeping with the Old Law