The Transfigured Life | The Case for Early Image Veneration w/ Michael Garten @TheTransfiguredLife | Uploaded May 2024 | Updated October 2024, 46 minutes ago.
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Some apologists and scholars make sweeping claims that the veneration of Icons is an accretion that has no basis in the scriptures or early history of the Church. But is this true? Is there justification for the veneration of images in the early Church? In this episode of The Transfigured Life, we are met with Michael Garten who gets into the evidence for the veneration of images before the first council of Nicea.

0:00 - Intro
1:14 - Who is Michael Garten and the story of his research?
6:20 - Dr.Gavin Ortlund against image veneration
16:32 - The weakness of Dr.Ortlund's argument
23:30 - The scriptural distinction between veneration and idolatry
30:54 - Biblical evidence of Image veneration
41:27 - protestants mishandling patristic context
45:00 - More strong evidence for veneration in the Pre-Nicene era
56:25 - The type/prototype theology in scripture/history
1:04:23 - Evidence for veneration in an Apocryphal text
1:12:08 - Closing remarks