Resumen

SAN MARTIN CORDOVA, Ivan. Theological Case for or Against Icons. Veneration of Sacred Images in Orthodox Temples. Academia XXII [online]. 2022, vol.13, n.25, pp.4-22.  Epub 21-Jul-2023. ISSN 2594-083X.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fa.2007252xp.2022.25.83148.

Images and icons are commonly found in catholic temples, representing not only God, virgins, saints or archangels, but also creatures of the natural world, such as human beings, animals or plants, and symbolic objects mentioned in the Scriptures. The Old Testament, explicitly in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5, forbids the use of idols in the form of anything that is in the world. Thus, either God’s instructions have been intentionally disobeyed, or at least Catholic religious practices clash with the commandments in the Bible. This work will show that this problem was overcome by three Medieval monks -Mansur, Abu Qurra and Theodore the Studite- who, in their theological reflections, made a distinction between veneration and worship (idolatry versus iconodulism), particularly within the Orthodox Catholic Church, one of the Christian churches where icons are more widely used: In the celebration of the Divine Liturgy, iconostasis -a wall of icons- plays a fundamental role in making a space sacred.

Palabras llave : Theology; Iconolatry; Iconodulism; Icons; Iconostasis; Orthodox Catholics.

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