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“Windows of God’s Kingdom:” An Apology and Exposition of Icons What Are Icons? Part.2 Old Controversies, Ancient Truths The testimony of the early Fathers attests to their understanding of the vitality of iconography. This consensus for the use of icons in daily veneration and worship continued after the Christian practice was legalized in the Roman Empire (AD 313). Within a generation of the first Council of the Church in Nicaea (AD 325), one can look to a father no less than …

Pictured above is from Legacy Icons visit to Greece: Rotunda of St George (Agios Georgios), Thessaloniki — a 4th‑century imperial rotunda later converted to a church — preserves some of the earliest and finest Early Christian mosaics, including a dome program on Christ’s Second Coming with processions of saints that shaped Orthodox iconography.  Recognized by UNESCO for its masterpiece mosaics and far‑reaching influence on Byzantine monumental art. “Windows of God&r …