DOI Artikel:
Knapiński, Ryszard: Ojcowie Kościoła o znaczeniu obrazów w przekazie wiary
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.27562#0024
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RYSZARD KNAPINSKI
together with the message of the Gospel. On the one hand it seemed that the ban on making
images and worshipping them was still binding in the communes consisted of the converted
Jews; on the other, they feared idolatry which would threaten Christianity on the part of
pagans and the converted Christians. The basie theological reflection concentrated on the
question of legitimizing images in the cuit. An important part in this process was played by
the Latin writers. Their attitudes, as regards allowing images, were very unfriendly, e.g.
Tertullian, Euzebius of Cezarea, Augustine and Heronymus, and the Eastern writers, mainly
the Cappadocian Fathers, such as Basil of Cezarea, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory Nazjanzen who
ardently advocated the worship of the saints in their images. Philosophical thought was
reflected in the official opinions held by the emperors: Constantine, Julian and Theodosius.
The materiał which has been presented here shows the process of the formation of the
Christian doctrine on the function of images in the first six centuries and does not contain the
discussion about the cuit of images, a dispute that broke out in the eighth century.
Translatée! by J an Kłos
RYSZARD KNAPINSKI
together with the message of the Gospel. On the one hand it seemed that the ban on making
images and worshipping them was still binding in the communes consisted of the converted
Jews; on the other, they feared idolatry which would threaten Christianity on the part of
pagans and the converted Christians. The basie theological reflection concentrated on the
question of legitimizing images in the cuit. An important part in this process was played by
the Latin writers. Their attitudes, as regards allowing images, were very unfriendly, e.g.
Tertullian, Euzebius of Cezarea, Augustine and Heronymus, and the Eastern writers, mainly
the Cappadocian Fathers, such as Basil of Cezarea, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory Nazjanzen who
ardently advocated the worship of the saints in their images. Philosophical thought was
reflected in the official opinions held by the emperors: Constantine, Julian and Theodosius.
The materiał which has been presented here shows the process of the formation of the
Christian doctrine on the function of images in the first six centuries and does not contain the
discussion about the cuit of images, a dispute that broke out in the eighth century.
Translatée! by J an Kłos