he Patristic theology and Byzantine understanding of the icon will show what they have to offer to modern Western society that keeps trying to escape reality.

impotent to reveal his divinity. Obviously, if one followed the logic of orthodox Christology, one had to believe that the human substance of Christ was also truly divine. Moreover, iconodule theology stressed that, in any icon, it is the ‘hypostasis’ – that is, the person – of the subject that is being revealed, and it is that person to whom the v

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