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ninth centuries have shown that in the light of the Incarnation art could
not retain a "neutral" function, that it could and even must express the
faith. Thus, through their style, through symbolic compositions, through the
elaborate artistic programs covering the walls of Byzantine churches, and
through the permanent system, which presided over the composition of the
Byzantine iconostasis, icons became an expression and a source of divine
knowledge. The good news about God's becoming man and about the presence
among men of a glorified and deified humanity first in Christ but also
through Him and the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary and in the saints - all
this "adornment of the Church" was expressed in Byzantine Christian art.
Eugene Trubetskoi, a Russian philosopher of the early-twentieth century,
called this expression "contemplation in colors."25

Notes
1. Porphyry, Against the Christians, fragment 77; ed. A. Harnack,
AbhBerlAk (1916), 93.
2. Text of Eusebius' letter in Nicephorus, Contra Eusebium, ed. J. B.
Pitra, Spicilegium Solesmense (Paris, 1852; repr. Graz, 1962), I, 383-386.
3. Mansi, XIII, 252AB, 256AB.
4. Ibid., 261p-264c. See pseudo-Dionysius, Celestial Hierarchy, PG
3:124A.
5. Mansi, XI, 977-980.
6. Germanus I, De haeresibuf et synodis; PG 98:80A.
7. John of Damascus, Or. I; PG 94:1236c.
8. lbid.; PG 94:1245A.
9. Mansi, XIII, 377D.
10. Ibid., XXXII, 103.
11. Theodore the Studite, Antirrhetic 1; PG 99:332o-333A.
12.., III; PG 99:396c-397A.
13. Ibid., 409c.
14. Ibid., 405A.
15. Theodore the Studite, Letter to Naucratius, II, 67; PG 99:1296AB;
see also Antirrh., III; PG 99:420o.
16. Antirrh., III; PG 99:420A.
17. Nicephorus, Antirrh., I; PG 100:272B.
18. Ibid., 328BD.
19. Nicephorus, Contra Eusebium, ed. Pitra, I, 401.
20. Antirrh., PG 100:268B.
21. Ibid., 440, 447.
22. Ibid., 252B.
23. Ibid., 317B.
24. John of Damascus, De Haer.; PG 94:764A.
25. E. Trubetskoi, Umozrenie н Kraskakh (Moscow, 1915-1916; repr.
Paris: YMCA Press, 1965); trans. Icons: Theology in Colour (New York: St.
Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1973).


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