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Empire and
lasted through the 8th and the 9th centuries. The most
famous iconodules (proponents of the
veneration of icons)
during that time were
saints John...
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derisively called "iconolaters" (εἰκονολάτρες). They are
normally known as "
iconodules" (εἰκονόδουλοι), or "iconophiles" (εἰκονόφιλοι).
These terms were, however...
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supported iconoclasm, but he
tacitly encouraged reconciliation with the
iconodules, whom he
generally stopped ****cuting,
allowing those exiled by Emperor...
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bitter and long-lived
religious dispute were the
iconodules, who
defended the
veneration of images.
Iconodule writers applied to
Constantine the derogatory...
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veneration of an icon
could not be
idolatrous as the
iconoclasts believed. The
iconodule position was not
justified by
Christological arguments (as in the Council...
- were
generally conciliatory, and he was
overwhelmingly influenced by the
iconodule clerics Nikephoros and
Theodore the Stoudite. He
improved relations with...
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crimes were
branded on
their foreheads.
Iconodule monks were
forbidden access Much of the ****cution of
iconodules was in
effect punishment for challenging...
- (later
Patriarch of
Constantinople John VII). When
called to comment, the
iconodule Patriarch Nikephoros I of
Constantinople rejected the
report and argued...
- iconoclasts) an iconolater; in a
Byzantine context, such a
person is
called an
iconodule or iconophile.
Iconoclasm does not
generally encomp**** the destruction...
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attributes to
others is seen as idolatory,
called shirk. Thus,
Muslims are not
iconodules and do not
attribute forms to God. God is
instead described and referred...
