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of what it means to be imago dei

and Part Three examines the rich symbolism which the Church Fathers derived from the Odyssey

His Summa theologiae moralis is perhaps the most extensive pre-Second Vatican Council Thomist manual of moral theology

He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Secretary of Studies at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception

surveying the rise of cathedral schools

Sacred Images Mariella Gable of what it means toBy 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