DOCTRINAL CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE CHRISTIAN ICON
DOCTRINAL CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE CHRISTIAN ICON

Summary/Abstract: The icon has a complex language because it embraces, but also pivots around it, an iconic theophany or sacred imagery and an inexpressible wealth of symbolic valences; is the revelation, word, and epiphanic anamnesis of acts of redemption, producing a theological and perhaps artistic excitement in the person who worship it, even if it is not its purpose, giving it a profound liturgical purpose and creating that mysterium fascinans. The icon is God's encounter with man, uncreated energies with nature, convergence, or interpenetration between eternal and ephemeral. Here it is fully seen how between the word and the image there is a complementary relationship in the proclamation of the gospel of Christ.

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