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Ecclesiology Architectural 3. Not only architectural Calvin

The third milestone is to restore sui generis since it merely states a truth, but must order the corresponding error. To continue living is not enough merely to simply affirm the legitimacy of the veneration of holy images, but you have to re-order the contemporary iconoclasm. This means on the one hand the condemnation of the churches as heretical and iconoclastic accomplishments of the other Orthodox churches because Iconodules.

Iconoclasm is Christological heresy that was condemned by the profession of the true faith by the Second Council of Nicaea, held there in 878. The recognition of Iconodules orthodoxy, accompanied by condemnation of iconoclasts such as heretics, came after a long struggle and hard political and theological victory celebrated each year in the Eastern liturgical calendar on the first Sunday of Lent, called Sunday of Orthodoxy. The documents of the Council of Nicaea have struggled to be accepted by the Western Church, not only for first Latin translation of his erroneous acts, carried out by the court of Charlemagne, as the different cultural understanding of the image, cultural soil in which grew the weed of separation, culminating in the schism between Rome and Constantinople in 1054.

Katolichon Stavronikita Monastery, Mount Athos

The East recognizes a sacred presence in the image, decoding and operating on the basis of two fundamental distinctions. The first of a philosophical-theological distinction between the image and the prototype which is the Word of God incarnate, to whom shall they preach anything really Concerning Jesus, that is to say that it is transfigured, died, descended into hell, rose again and ascended into heaven. Thanks to the Incarnation of the Son of God the divine nature itself incircoscrivibile, has autocircoscritta in human nature, with which now forms one and the perfect person, that is formed of two natures with two wills and two energies. By virtue of this hypostatic union between divinity and humanity, human nature naturally represented, represents not only itself, but the real hypostatic union of the Incarnate Word, conversely, the union would be only moral or fictitious. Brilliant exceeded monism idolatrous, unable to distinguish the representation of God by God himself. The second type of liturgical and spiritual distinction, discriminate between latria , worship due only to God, and dulia , veneration offered to the Saints, the Holy Cross and the Holy Gospel, thus allowing the formation of the cult of holy images or Iconodules .

Protaton, Mount Athos

The West, by contrast, does not receive any presence in the but merely use it as an instrument of education of the uneducated ( Bible pauperum ). In the West, after the cult of the relics of martyrs and saints, from the indelible carnality, did not develop any cult of holy images, as reduced to a mere educational tool. Therefore, at the educated and literate at the back has occasionally been an iconoclasm, fueled now by choice pauper (Savonarola), now with precise patterns of ascetic-contemplative (St. Bernard), now with choices contrary to visual culture (Calvin) . Calvin is not alone, is in good company, unfortunately. You have to go to the root of Western incomprehension of the dogmatic dictates of the last of the seven Ecumenical Councils of the undivided Church, the Nicaea II (878), in order to allow the West to recognize the presence noticeable in the holy images of the Incarnate Word, not only for appropriate catechesis to the illiterate, this is no longer the condition of the Christian people.

iconoclastic doctrine, like all heresies, it is not eradicated once and for all. Each generation of Christians must make their own the achievements made by the living Tradition of the Church. In the Western Church is in vogue and very fashionable iconoclasm, it can be seen at work in contemporary churches these specimens for iconoclasm.

Le Corbusier, Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp

buildings are empty, immaterial and timeless. But the Christian God did not speak so, as it is written in the book of the prophet Isaiah: " I did not say to the descendants of Jacob " Seek me in a vacuum. "I am the Lord, that I speak with justice, to announce what is right "(Is 45.19).

Aalto, Santa Maria Assunta, Riola Vergato

The refusal of colors and forms that distinguishes these buildings, expresses the rejection of creation materiality of God in his flesh, vegetable, mineral, and therefore also bright.

Fuksas, St. Paul, Foligno