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Iconoclasm
If, as I suggested in the previous post, we all have and venerate icons then maybe there is a corollary to be considered. How are we also iconoclasts? What images have we and do we continue to destroy?...
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Divinity Hidden
There is a Hindu legend about a time when all humans were gods, but they abused that divinity. They so abused it that Brahma, the chief god, decided to take it away from them and hide it where they...
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St. Maximus on Image and Likeness
The first objective of God was for the human being to come to be “according to the image and likeness of God,” and what is “according to the image” is incorruption, immortality, invisibility, which...
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Artisans of the Likeness of God – The Feast of St. Basil the Great
“‘Let us make the human being according to our image and according to our likeness’ [Gen. 1:26]. By our creation we have the first, and by our free choice we build the second. In our initial structure...
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Minted by God
“If Caesar can require his image in a coin, cannot God require his image in a human being?” - St. Augustine, Sermon 308A.7
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The True Image Defeats Legion – A Sermon on Luke 8:26-39
“Jesus then asked him, ‘What is your name?’ He said, ‘Legion;’ for many demons had entered him.” (From Luke 8:26-39, Proper 7C) He called himself Legion but that is not his true name. That is not who...
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Claiming Our Share in His Divinity
γνῶθι σεαυτόν, know yourself (source) The saying “Know yourself” means therefore that we should recognize and acknowledge in ourselves the God who made us in his own image, for if we do this, we in...
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