What is Iconoclasm?
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• Iconoclasm not simply an ideology of vandalism – like saints icons bridge between material world and the vaults of heaven, divine power and icons intrinsically linked. Icons protect Christian communities: icon of the Virgin Herakleion’s ships 610 – Icons holy objects with intercessional and protective power – Whittow – Icons seen as doors to the spiritual world
• Council of Trullo 691 – 692 encouraged pictorial representation of God, also encouraged iconophile veneration – raised hopes and expectation not always satisfied, faith in cons reduced to mystic belief in the supernatural – public display of icons to further the acceptance of the message of Christianity, power of symbols effective in religious education
• Rodley: Iconoclasm not the total obliteration of monumental art, much remained stagnation as opposed to obliteration

Other Notes in this Category

1. Byzantine Ideology
2. Historiography
3. Iconclasm and the Ancient City
4. Iconoclasm and the Holy Man
5. Structural Changes in Iconoclasm
6. Theological Backing to Iconoclasm
7. Timeline
8. What is Iconoclasm?
9. Why Iconoclasm?

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