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The Bible presents Daniel and his companions as distinct, positive examples of individuals refusing to pay homage to another god, even at the price of their lives. During the time of the exile, Nebuchadnezzar erects a gold statue of himself and commands all subjects to worship it. Three Jewish officials – Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego ...
In the case of an image of a saint, the worship would not be latria but rather dulia, while the Blessed Virgin Mary receives hyperdulia. The worship of whatever type, latria, hyperdulia, or dulia, can be considered to go through the icon, image, or statue: "The honor given to an image reaches to the prototype" (St. John Damascene in Summa ³).
The simple belief that images were idolatrous appears to have been their main motive; reference was made to the prohibitions on the worship of graven images in the Mosaic Law, and aniconic statements by the Church Fathers, some of which may now be lost. One theological issue revolved around the two natures of Jesus. Iconoclasts believed that ...
A breakdown can be found in the Shulkhan Aruch, section Yoreh De'ah (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 168:1), which takes the literal meaning of פסל pesel as "graven image" (from the root פסל p-s-l, 'to engrave'. [7]) The prohibition is therefore seen as applying specifically to certain forms of sculpture and depictions of the human face.
Images of Jesus tend to show ethnic characteristics similar to those of the culture in which the image has been created. Beliefs that certain images are historically authentic, or have acquired an authoritative status from Church tradition, remain powerful among some of the faithful, in Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, and Roman ...
Graven image or graven images may refer to: Cult image , a human-made object that is venerated or worshipped for the deity, spirit or daemon that it embodies or represents Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image , one of the Ten Commandments
[3] [4] Alternatively, Thomas Römer argued in 2015 that “clearly… the tablets of the law are a substitute for something else.” [5] He holds that “the original Ark contained a statue [i.e. a cult image] of Yhwh”, [6]: 4 which he specifically identifies as “two betyles (sacred stones), or two cult image statues symbolizing Yhwh and ...
A religious image is a work of visual art that is representational and has a religious purpose, subject or connection. All major historical religions have made some use of religious images, although their use is strictly controlled and often controversial in many religions, especially Abrahamic ones.