Sunday, February 21, 2010

David Clayton: How the Form of the Iconographic Tradition Relates to the Catholic Worldview

With today being the first Sunday of the Great Fast in the Byzantine liturgical calendar, and thereby also the commemoration of the "Triumph of Orthodoxy" wherein the Byzantine East commemorates "the restoration of icons, which had been banned for several decades, to their rightful liturgical use" (see Byzcath.org), this article by David Clayton on the subject of "How the form of the iconographic tradition relates to the Catholic worldview" is certainly pertinent -- though the timing was not specifically planned.

How the Form of the Iconographic Tradition Relates to the Catholic Worldview

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