Showing one's true colours: Patriarch Methodios on the morally improving effect of sacred images
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2016
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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
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This brief article makes the case that Patriarch Methodios developed a distinctive icon theology. He argued that the saints had infused the colours of their faces with their holy essence and that these colours when separated from the bodies and transferred to images could thus lead to the moral improvement of the onlookers.
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Patriarch Methodios, Icons, Icon theology, Second Iconoclasm
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BYZANTINE AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES
Volume
40
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2
Start Page
298
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306