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The Medieval Church · 754; survives in refutation
The Definition of the Council of Hieria
The Council of Hieria
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What it is
The iconoclast council's ruling that any image of Christ either divides his natures or confuses them, and that the only permitted image is the eucharist.
Why it lasted
The theological case for iconoclasm in its own words, preserved only because the council that overturned it quoted the text in full to condemn it.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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