c. AD 675 – 749
John of Damascus
His On the Orthodox Faith is the first great systematic summary of Greek theology and shaped Nicaea II.
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- Location
- Damascus and the monastery of Mar Saba near Jerusalem
- Role
- Monk, priest and Doctor of the Church
- Major writings
- The Fount of Knowledge, including On the Orthodox Faith
- Three Treatises on the Divine Images
- Teachings
- The incarnation justifies the making of images
- The distinction between veneration and adoration
- Connection to apostolic Christianity
- He argued from what the churches had always practised rather than from novel reasoning.
Quotations with references
“I do not venerate matter, I venerate the Creator of matter, who became matter for my sake.”
Sources and References
- On the Orthodox Faithnewadvent.org