theodora2009.09.27 [12:18]
"Even when the Council of 1666-67(Moscow) did attempt to reiterate an essential element of patristic Tradition such as the prohibition of the iconographic depiction of God the Father, the results were, at best, mixed. This prohibition was renewed as a response to an iconography purporting to depict the Holy Trinity in which God the Father was portrayed as an old man. While such a representation within a Trinitarian context did cease, the iconographic presentation of an old man as the Old Testament “Ancient of Days” continued. Obviously, the patristic identification ofthe existential encounter with Christ as Lord of Glory (and Ancient of Days) in the Old Testament and as Messiah in the New Testament, so evident to the Church Fathers, had eroded significantly since Rublev’s “Old Testament Trinity” icon. Within the context of a truly patristic theology, all Old Testament epiphanies can only be those of the pre-incarnate Christ and must be depicted as such."
http://www.oodegr.com/english/istorika/rwsia/sopko1.htm
theodora2009.09.27 [11:38]
Excuse me, i think i cannot see right:is the big One the Father and the little- the Son? I believe sth is strange here...and i hope i didn't well understand.
