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This book is the historical and theological distillation of that work. In \u003cem\u003eCredo\u003c\/em\u003e, Pelikan addresses essential questions about the Christian tradition: the origins of creeds; their function; their political role; how they relate to Christian institutions, worship, and service; and how they help to explain the major divisions of the Christian church and of Christian history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCredo\u003c\/em\u003e stands as an independent reference work devoted to the subject of what creeds and confessions are and what their role in history has been. 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If the policy of Iconoclasm had succeeded, the entire history of Christian art—and of the Christian church, at least in the East—would have been altered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIconoclasm was defeated—by Byzantine politics, by popular revolts, by monastic piety, and, most fundamentally of all, by theology, just as it had been theology that the opponents of images had used to justify their actions. Analyzing an intriguing chapter in the history of ideas, the renowned scholar Jaroslav Pelikan shows how a faith that began by attacking the worship of images ended first in permitting and then in commanding it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePelikan charts the theological defence of icons during the Iconoclastic controversies of the eighth and ninth centuries, whose high point came in A.D. 787, when the Second Council of Nicaea restored the cult of images in the church. 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