Gereja di Timur: Perbedaan antara revisi

Pada abad ke-19, kerap muncul wacana bahwa Gereja di Timur menentang segala macam citra religius. Penghormatan terhadap citra religius di [[Kekristenan Suriah|Gereja-Gereja Suryani]] memang tidak pernah sampai pada taraf setinggi yang dicapai [[Gereja Ortodoks Timur|Gereja Romawi Timur]], tetapi tetap merupakan bagian dari tradisi Gereja di Timur.<ref name=ICE>{{cite journal |last=Parry |first=Ken |date=1996 |title=Images in the Church of the East: The Evidence from Central Asia and China |url=https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:1m2404&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS-DOCUMENT.PDF |journal=Bulletin of the John Rylands Library |volume=78 |issue=3 |pages=143–162 |access-date=23 Juli 2018|doi=10.7227/BJRL.78.3.11 }}</ref> Penolakan citra-citra religius pada akhirnya menjadi norma akibat [[penyebaran Islam|penyebaran agam Islam]] yang mengharamkan segala macam gambar orang-orang kudus dan [[para nabi dalam Kekristenan|nabi-nabi]]. Oleh karena itu, Gereja di Timur terpaksa menyingkirkan ikon-ikon.<ref name="Nestorian">{{cite web|url=http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=21-05-027-f|title=The Shadow of Nestorius}}</ref>{{better source|date=Maret 2021}}<!--

 

 

An illustrated 13th-century Nestorian [[Peshitta]] Gospel book written in [[Estrangela]] from northern Mesopotamia or [[Tur Abdin]], currently in the [[State Library of Berlin]], proves that in the 13th century the Church of the East was not yet [[aniconic]].{{sfn|Baumer|2006|p=75, 94}} Another Nestorian Gospel manuscript preserved in the [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]] contains an illustration that depicts [[Jesus Christ]] in the circle of a [[ringed cross]] surrounded by four angels.<ref>{{cite book |last=Drège |first=Jean-Pierre |translator-last=López Carmona |translator-first=Mari Pepa |year=1992 |orig-year=1989 |title=Marco Polo y la Ruta de la Seda |language=es |series=Collection "[[Découvertes Gallimard#Appendix|Aguilar Universal]]" |volume=31 |location=Madrid |publisher=Aguilar, S. A. de Ediciones |pages=43 & 187 |isbn=978-84-0360-187-1 |oclc=1024004171 |quote=Doctrinas persas}}</ref> Three [[Syriac language|Syriac]] manuscripts from early 19th century or earlier—they were published in a compilation titled ''[[The Book of Protection]]'' by [[Hermann Gollancz]] in 1912—contain some illustrations of no great artistic worth that show that use of images continued.