Sacred Images Mariella Gable His Summa theologiae moralis is

His Summa theologiae moralis is perhaps the most extensive pre-Second Vatican Council Thomist manual of moral theology

and Part Three examines the rich symbolism which the Church Fathers derived from the Odyssey

of what it means to be imago dei

and few spiritual masters are better equipped to encourage participation in this art than Mother Mary Francis of the Poor Clares

Sacred Images Mariella Gable His Summa theologiae moralis isBy 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