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- Iconoclasm not simply an ideology of vandalism - like saints icons bridge between material world and the vaults of heaven, divine power and icons intrinsically linked. Icons protect Christian communities: icon of the Virgin Herakleions ships 610 Icons holy objects with intercessional and protective power - Whittow - Icons seen as doors to the spiritual world
- Council of Trullo 691 - 692 encouraged pictorial representation of God, also encouraged iconophile veneration - raised hopes and expectation not always satisfied, faith in cons reduced to mystic belief in the supernatural - public display of icons to further the acceptance of the message of Christianity, power of symbols effective in religious education
- Rodley - Iconoclasm not the total obliteration of monumental art, much remained stagnation as opposed to obliteration
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