What is your perspective concerning representations of God the Father and God the Holy Spirit in visual depictions? I believed that iconography was only made possible through the Incarnation, with only God the Son being incarnated.
In the future I would ask you to only make comments relevant to the article being commented on, but I’ll answer your question: artistic representations of the Father and Spirit are very traditional, in both the East and West. Mount Athos famously has monasteries with depictions of the Father, and the Russian tradition is especially known for this. Depictions of the Spirit as a dove are also very ancient and just fine.
The Incarnation is what allows us to depict God’s true form, as opposed to just a representation of it. Ancient Israel had artistic representations in their worship, even the Ark of the Covenant itself was a kind of “image” of God. When we accurately depict our Lord, however, this isn’t just a representation of God that we can venerate, rather it’s truly the form of God produced in the image, and is thus owed divine worship. This is unlike images of the Father and Spirit, I would say, which we merely venerate as symbols of God.
What is your perspective concerning representations of God the Father and God the Holy Spirit in visual depictions? I believed that iconography was only made possible through the Incarnation, with only God the Son being incarnated.
In the future I would ask you to only make comments relevant to the article being commented on, but I’ll answer your question: artistic representations of the Father and Spirit are very traditional, in both the East and West. Mount Athos famously has monasteries with depictions of the Father, and the Russian tradition is especially known for this. Depictions of the Spirit as a dove are also very ancient and just fine.
The Incarnation is what allows us to depict God’s true form, as opposed to just a representation of it. Ancient Israel had artistic representations in their worship, even the Ark of the Covenant itself was a kind of “image” of God. When we accurately depict our Lord, however, this isn’t just a representation of God that we can venerate, rather it’s truly the form of God produced in the image, and is thus owed divine worship. This is unlike images of the Father and Spirit, I would say, which we merely venerate as symbols of God.