 | Icons and Logos: Sources in Eighth-Century Iconoclasm Subjects: Iconoclasm -- History -- Sources; Icons -- Cult -- Controversial literature; Orthodox Eastern Church and art -- History -- Sources; The documents in this volume, arising from the controversy surrounding the lifting of the ban on icons, are of major significance, but until the publication of this book no English translation of the conciliar texts, in their entirety, had been available to scholars working in a field who do not easily read eighth-century Byzantine Greek. Sahas Daniel J. : DANIEL J. SAHAS is a member of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario; the author of John of Damascus on Islam: The 'Heresy of the Ishmaelites' (Leiden, 1972) and of a number of articles on Byzantine-Muslim relations; and a member of the Executive Committee, and representative of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Canada at the General Board, of the Canadian Council of Churches. |
