Tollefsen, Torstein Theodor
St Theodore the Studite's Defence of the Icons : Theology and Philosophy in Ninth-Century Byzantium
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018
8vo. xi, [3]., 193 p. The dust-jacket is now in a protective jacket. Footnotes with bibliographical references. Bibliography: (p. 167-174). Greek-Engklish Glossary & Index. Index of Passages. Index of Names.
Text in English & Greek
Summary from jacket: 'St Theodore the Studite's Defence of the Icons provides an investigation of the icon-theology of St Theodore the Studite, mainly as it is presented in his three refutations of the iconoclasts, the Antirrhetici tres adversus iconomachos...In addition to the main elements of Theodore's defence of the icon, like the Christological issue, the relation between image and prototype, the question of veneration, his explanation of why we may say of an image that 'this is Christ', and his innovative thinking on the representative character of the icon, the book has an introduction that places Theodore in the history of Byzantine philosophy: He has some knowledge of traditional logical topics and is able to utilize argumentative forms in countering his iconoclast opponents.'
St Theodore the Studite's Defence of the Icons : Theology and Philosophy in Ninth-Century Byzantium
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018
8vo. xi, [3]., 193 p. The dust-jacket is now in a protective jacket. Footnotes with bibliographical references. Bibliography: (p. 167-174). Greek-Engklish Glossary & Index. Index of Passages. Index of Names.
Text in English & Greek
Summary from jacket: 'St Theodore the Studite's Defence of the Icons provides an investigation of the icon-theology of St Theodore the Studite, mainly as it is presented in his three refutations of the iconoclasts, the Antirrhetici tres adversus iconomachos...In addition to the main elements of Theodore's defence of the icon, like the Christological issue, the relation between image and prototype, the question of veneration, his explanation of why we may say of an image that 'this is Christ', and his innovative thinking on the representative character of the icon, the book has an introduction that places Theodore in the history of Byzantine philosophy: He has some knowledge of traditional logical topics and is able to utilize argumentative forms in countering his iconoclast opponents.'
