ICON AND IDOL
ICON AND IDOL

Summary/Abstract: In this article I wanted to point out to an extremely delicate matter that will always come up in the case of such a delicate topic, as the one presented in the title, one that spurs in the absence of a thorough understanding of the context that configured the issues of the topic at hand in the first place: such is the case of the inadequate understanding of the meaning of the icon. My approach is essentially philosophical, yet complementary to the theological one, while I am aiming to depict the difficulties posed by the approach of such a topic. As a novelty to my approach, I tried to depict the conditions in which the exertion of theological thought leads to heresy when tampered by a philosophical conception (without going into technical details, I only illustrated the sources that motivate the conceptual confusions that lead to erroneous understandings of the meaning of icon).

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