The teaching of the Church, according to which images are an integral element of the Christian Gospel from its very beginning, is also expressed in
The Symbolism of the Church
What exactly is the meaning of symbolism? The indirect expression by means of an image of something which no form, visual or verbal, can convey
The Art of the First Centuries of Christianity and its Symbolism
We have seen that the scholarly theories concerning sacred objects have been based on diverse and changing hypotheses, sometimes even on prejudices. Thus Protestant scholars,