On Holy Images: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
On Holy Images by Saint John of Damascus: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 10 original MP3 tracks, 3:21:12 running time and a link to listen.
On Holy Images, credited to Saint John of Damascus, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of On Holy Images by Saint John of Damascus. (Translated by Mary H. Allies.) Read in English by A LibriVox Volunteer. “A Treatise on Images will not be out of place in a public which is confusing the making of images with the making of idols. A great Christian of the eighth century found himself called upon to face an imperial Iconoclast, Leo the Isaurian, who waged war against holy images, on the plausible pretext that they withdrew honour from God. He would willingly have remained silent, but he would not bury his talent of eloquence. He brought it forth and witnessed to the teaching of the Church... The seventh General Council condemned Leo’s assault. And the special champion of holy Images is St John Damascene, whose treatise is now published for the first time in English.” (Summary adapted by The Reader from the Translator's Preface)
Recording facts
- Recording title: On Holy Images
- Author credits: Saint John of Damascus
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 10
- Listed recording duration: 3:21:12
Catalogue topics
- icons
- christian images
- iconoclasm
Track guide
- 01 - Part 1 — 21:40
- 02 - Part 1 continued — 22:48
- 03 - Part 1 continued — 16:27
- 04 - Part 1 continued — 15:31
- 05 - Part 2 — 22:52
- 06 - Part 2 continued — 21:01
- 07 - Part 3 — 19:25
- 08 - Part 3 continued — 21:43
- 09 - Part 3 continued — 15:50
- 10 - Part 3 continued — 23:55
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