Images, icons and veneration
Icons bear witness to the incarnate Christ and his saints. Veneration honors the depicted person; worship belongs to God. In 1990 the joint commission affirmed basic agreement between Eastern icon theology and ancient Oriental teaching and practice, without making Nicaea II an Oriental ecumenical council.
Key points
- Icons bear witness to the incarnate Christ and his saints. Veneration honors the depicted person; worship belongs to God. In 1990 the joint commission affirmed basic agreement between Eastern icon theology and ancient Oriental teaching and practice, without making Nicaea II an Oriental ecumenical council.
Scripture
- John 1:14; Exodus 20:4-5 — Read the literary context. Later ecclesial reception is supplied by the named source, not established by the passage alone.