Iconoclastic Controversy Notes
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Iconoclastic Controversy Notes • Icons Accepted • People were illiterate and needed pictures and statues to understand the religion • Believed praying to God through Icons was not the same as praying to idols • Pope says icons are OK after council meets • Icons NOT accepted • Believe icons = idols • 726AD – Emperor Leo III rules icons illegal and must be destroyed • Iconoclasts believe icons are a heresy and people caught should be excommunicated • Iconoclasts destroyed icons = Byzantine Art • Later the Byzantine Empire accepts icons because people were having them anyway. *CHURCH SPLITS in 1054 AD = Great Schism * Latin Roman Catholic Church Western Roman Empire Greek Eastern Orthodox Church Byzantine Empire
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Iconoclastic Controversy Notes
• Icons Accepted• People were illiterate and
needed pictures and statues to understand the religion
• Believed praying to God through Icons was not the same as praying to idols
• Pope says icons are OK after council meets
• Icons NOT accepted• Believe icons = idols• 726AD – Emperor Leo III
rules icons illegal and must be destroyed
• Iconoclasts believe icons are a heresy and people caught should be excommunicated
• Iconoclasts destroyed icons = Byzantine Art
• Later the Byzantine Empire accepts icons because people were having them anyway.
*CHURCH SPLITS in 1054 AD = Great Schism *
Latin Roman Catholic ChurchWestern Roman Empire
Greek Eastern Orthodox Church Byzantine Empire
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