RELIGIONS
CHRISTIANITY
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Question
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What is an iconoclast?
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a person who is willing to die for his or her belief
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the accounts that apostles write of Jesus’ life
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originally:a person who destroys icons; today:a person who criticizes traditional beliefs
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church officials
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -To be called an iconoclast today is usually kind of cool-they’re rugged individualists, bold thinkers who don’t give a hoot what tradition calls for. But back in medieval Greece, the iconoclasts had a more thuggish reputation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Iconoclastic Controversy, a dispute over the use of religious images (icons) in the Byzantine Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries.
Detailed explanation-3: -Iconoclasm literally means “image breaking” and refers to a recurring historical impulse to break or destroy images for religious or political reasons.
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