Sacred Images Edwin O'Connor ” “The One Who Wouldn’t

” “The One Who Wouldn’t Dance

In all of this

he served the Church in a variety of positions

and thus redeem it

ISBN: 978-1685951382

Sacred Images Edwin O'Connor ” “The One Who Wouldn’tBy St. John Damascene Mary H. Allies War is toil and trouble, wrote the poet John Dryden in 1697. Almost a thousand years before, a war in the Byzantine Empire proved no exception to this rule. Yet it was not a war of fire and sword, but of images and words, waged not in the name of domination, but of divine worship. It was the iconomachythe war of iconsnow known as the Iconoclastic Controversy. The Iconoclasts contended, in keeping with the Old Law