Orthodoxy Sunday | Martyria

Studia Humanitatis No. I (XV) / 2023 The Aesthetics of Beauty. Notes on the Byzantine Icon: Theology and Art The Nun Atanasia Văetiși

The Byzantine icon is analysed from the perspectives of theology, history and aesthetics, beginning with the iconoclastic controversy of the 8th–9th centuries and the dogmatic arguments put forward by Patriarch Germanus I, Saint John of Damascus, Theodore the Studite and Nicephorus of Constantinople. The iconographic canon, the iconographic programme of the church and the stylistic features of Byzantine art—understood as an image of reality transfigured by grace—are described.

Studia Theologica No. II (IV) / 2017 The icon – a testimony to the Incarnation of Christ the Saviour His Eminence Varsanufie

The theological foundation of icon veneration is examined through patristic, conciliar and liturgical sources, arguing that the icon's central dogmatic function is to bear witness to the Incarnation of the Son of God and the consequent possibility of human deification. Figures such as Saint Athanasius the Great, Saint John of Damascus, Father Stăniloae, and the Seventh Ecumenical Council are invoked to show that rejecting the icon is equivalent to denying the reality of Christ's Incarnation.