Penyembahan berhala: Perbedaan antara revisi

 

[[File:Ostrabrama-prayer.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Penghormatan terhadap citra-citra Maria disebut [[devosi kepada Bunda Maria]] (above: Lithuania), suatu amalan yang dipermasalahkan sebagian besar umat Kristen Protestan.<ref>{{cite book|author=Rev. Robert William Dibdin|title=England warned and counselled; 4 lectures on popery and tractarianism|url=https://archive.org/details/englandwarnedan00dibdgoog|year=1851|publisher=James Nisbet|page=[https://archive.org/details/englandwarnedan00dibdgoog/page/n38 20]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Gary Waller|title=Walsingham and the English Imagination|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qzHL_q84028C&pg=PA153|year=2013|publisher=Ashgate|isbn=978-1-4094-7860-7|page=153}}</ref>]]

 

Penghormatan terhadap ikon-ikon melalui laku ''[[proskinesis]]'' diundangkan pada tahun 787 Masehi oleh [[Konsili Nicea II|Konsili Ekumene yang ke-7]].<ref name=giakalis1>{{cite book|author=Ambrosios Giakalis|title=Images of the Divine: The Theology of Icons at the Seventh Ecumenical Council|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x6bYAAAAMAAJ |year=2005|publisher=Brill Academic|isbn=978-90-04-14328-9|pages=viii–ix, 1–3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Gabriel Balima|title=Satanic Christianity and the Creation of the Seventh Day |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pNfqjbX2GQgC&pg=PA72 |year=2008|publisher=Dorrance|isbn=978-1-4349-9280-2|pages=72–73}}</ref> Keputusan tersebut dipicu oleh kontroversi ikonoklasme Bizantium yang muncul sesudah meletusnya perang-perang Kristen-Muslim dan munculnya gerakan ikonoklasme di Asia Barat.<ref name=giakalis1/><ref>Patricia Crone (1980), Islam, Judeo-Christianity and Byzantine Iconoclasm, ''Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam'', Jld. 2, Hlmn. 59–95</ref> Pembelaan terhadap citra-citra dan peranan sarjana Kristen asal Suriah, Yuhana Addimasyqi, benar-benar penting pada zaman itu. Gereja Ortodoks Timur sejak saat itu memuliakan penggunaan ikon-ikon dan citra-citra. [[Gereja-Gereja Katolik Timur]] juga menerima kehadiran ikon-ikon di dalam perayaan [[Liturgi Suci]] mereka.<ref>{{cite book|author=James Leslie Houlden|title=Jesus in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=17kzgBusXZIC&pg=PA369|year=2003|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-856-3|pages=369–370}}</ref>