Writings on Iconoclasm #69

Publication Data: New York, NY/Mahwah, NJ: The Newman Press, 2015
Format: hardcover
Number of Pages: vi + 246
Dimensions (l × w × h): 22.2 cm × 14.6 cm × 2.4 cm
ISBN: 978‒0‒8091‒0611‒0

   
Theodore the Studite
Translated and Introduced by Thomas Cattoi

No. 69 of Ancient Christian Writers: The Works of the Fathers in Translation

“Theodore the Studite (759–826) is one of the most important personalities in the period of Eastern Christian theology that followed the Second Council of Nicaea (787). The purpose of this volume is to offer to an English-speaking public all the writings of Theodore that were devoted to the question of the veneration of sacred images. Iconoclasm was Theodore’s chief preoccupation during the second part of his life; it led to the composition of his chief polemical works—the three Antirrhetici and the Seven Chapters against the Iconoclasts—as well as his refutations, in verse, of different poetic compositions by members of the iconoclastic party.”
—“INTRODUCTION”

CONTENTS

Introduction
Writings on Iconoclasm
   First Refutation of the Iconoclasts
   Second Refutation of the Iconoclasts
   Third Refutation of the Iconoclasts
   Seven Chapters against the Iconoclasts
   Some Questions Posed to the Iconoclasts
   Letter to His Own Father Plato about the Veneration of the Sacred Images
   Refutation and Subversion of the Impious Poems
Appendix: Celebratory Canon
Notes
Bibliography
General Index
Scripture Index