Image destruction

Japanese: 画像破壊 - がぞうはかい
Image destruction

…In contrast, image worship was not an issue in the Eastern churches, such as the Nestorians and Monophysites, and even in the West, image worship was only discussed from a purely educational standpoint for the faithful. The icon theology of the Greek church was not properly understood by the Carolingian theologians, who were resistant to the doctrines of the Council of Nicaea, and the Pope had to convince them of its correctness. [Kinichi Watanabe]
[art]
In the narrow sense, iconoclasm refers to the destruction of sacred images that took place in the Byzantine Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries, but the aversion to using naturalistic images, especially human figures, to represent the transcendent or invisible sacred has appeared widely in art history in opposition to iconographic art (such as the naturalistic anthropomorphic gods of Greece and Rome). Primitive religions generally did not depict supernatural beings, and Shintoism did not have statues of gods for a long time, and even in Buddhist art, Buddha was represented exclusively by symbols (such as the Bodhi tree) until it was inspired by the West.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "image destruction" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これに反し,ネストリウス派,単性論派等の東方諸教会にあっては問題とならず,また西方でも,信徒に対する純教育的見地から像礼拝が論じられたにとどまり,ギリシア教会のイコン神学は,カロリング朝神学者たちにより正しく理解されず,ニカエア公会議の教義に対し拒否的であり,ローマ教皇がその正しさを彼らに説得しなければならなかった。【渡辺 金一】
[美術]
 イコノクラスムは,狭義には8~9世紀のビザンティン帝国で起こった聖画像破壊を指すが,超越的存在,不可視の聖なるものの表現に自然的形象,特に人間像を用いることを忌避する立場は,偶像主義の美術(たとえばギリシア・ローマの自然主義的神人同形像)と対立して,美術史上広く現れている。原始宗教においては一般に超自然的存在は表されず,神道では長い間神像はなく,仏教美術でも西方から触発されるまで仏陀はもっぱら象徴(菩提樹など)によって表された。…

※「画像破壊」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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