Sacred Images Pieper Kolfenbach

Kolfenbach

who came “to seek and to save that which was lost

had abruptly left him in the midst of a complacent period of engagement

Taking its cue from Péguy’s remark that the social revolution will be a moral revolution or it will not be at all

Sacred Images Pieper KolfenbachBy St. John Damascene Mary H. Allies War is toil and trouble, wrote the poet John Dryden in 1697. Almost a thousand years before, a war in the Byzantine Empire proved no exception to this rule. Yet it was not a war of fire and sword, but of images and words, waged not in the name of domination, but of divine worship. It was the iconomachythe war of iconsnow known as the Iconoclastic Controversy. The Iconoclasts contended, in keeping with the Old Law