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Iconoclasm in the 21st Century: New Challenges and the Response of Orthodox Tradition

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Iconoclasm in the 21st Century: New Challenges and the Response of Orthodox Tradition
29.99 €
Icons in a figurative form express the Orthodox doctrine, thereby bringing to the world the news of Christ. However, the existence of sacred images in public space raises the problem of protecting them from malicious or involuntary abuse. Contemporary iconoclasm is expressed not only in blasphemous art exhibitions and performances accompanied by the desecration of icons, but also in the form of unregulated use of Christian sacred images for commercial purposes: on goods of ordinary use, on packaging, in publishing products, in advertising, etc. All this leads to the profanation of the sacred, to the disappearance of reverence for the sacred.

For the Orthodox Church, the danger lies in the absorption of iconography by glamour. Orthodox glamour is also an attempt to monetize Orthodoxy. This can only be countered by restoring the norms of pious treatment of sacred images, primarily in the Orthodox community itself. That's why this book was written.

The book belongs to the popular science genre, but has a scientific reference apparatus. The publication is provided with rich illustrative material.
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