Sacred Images Pieper This volume surveys the re-awakening

This volume surveys the re-awakening of the Catholic soul which began even before the advent of Luther’s revolution and which culminated in the tireless devotion of St

Its “windows” include the works of—among others—Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James

In the teaching of Augustine of Hippo—as in that of the Common Doctor of the Church

is reinvigorated in this freshly edited edition and remains a source of equal edification and delight for all the faithful in the present age

Sacred Images Pieper This volume surveys the re-awakeningBy 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