Translation of "Johannes von damaskus" in English

John of Damascus was the last of the Greek Fathers.

John of Damascus knows the Old Testament ban on images.

John Damascene fought the iconoclasts at various levels.

That is what saint John of Damascus and other Fathers of our Church tell us.

Then, in 743 John of Damascus incorporated extensive excerpts in his writing "De fide Orthodoxa", though without naming Nemesius as the author.

Saintly figures (warriors, martyrs, monks, apostles, ascetics) like Pachomius, Cosmas of Jerusalem and John of Damascus are arranged in the second stripe.

Then, in 743 John of Damascus incorporated extensive excerpts in his writing De fide Orthodoxa, though without naming Nemesius as the author.

Today I should like to speak about John Damascene, a personage of prime importance in the history of Byzantine Theology, a great Doctor in the history of the Universal Church.

In spiritual descent from Ignatius of Antioch, Ephraem, Simeon and John Damascene, the names of many Fathers, monks, hermits and so many other saints who are the glory of your Church are still in the living memory of the universal Church.

Saint John of Damascus tells the tale of an icon of Saint Theodore being shot with arrows by pagans.

John Damascene was also among the first to distinguish, in the cult, both public and private, of the Christians, between worship (latreia), and veneration (proskynesis): the first can only be offered to God, spiritual above all else, the second, on the other hand, can make use of an image to address the one whom the image represents.

Following this stand, Saint John of Damascus in one very important dogmatic text - an extremely important dogmatic teaching, both succinct and substantial, titled "A Precise Exposition of the Orthodox Faith" - had said (but it is also a dogmatic tradition of the Fathers) that the angels after this incident became impervious towards sin; they can never fall thereafter, because they had "stood steady".

Well, do you know what Saint John the Damascene says?

This story of a conversion is more than an authentic Christian legend (then attributed to Saint John of Damascus) — it is above all a Christianized story.

John Damascene extends these fundamental ideas to the veneration of the relics of Saints, on the basis of the conviction that the Christian Saints, having become partakers of the Resurrection of Christ, cannot be considered simply "dead".

Normally the following names are mentioned: Sophronius, Maximus the Confessor, Thomas the Presbyter, Sebeos of Armenia, John of Damascus, and a few others.

In 726 CE, during the Umayyad period, the Nestorian theologian John of Damascus wrote that Muhammad was a forerunner of the Antichrist.

May I remind you that Saint John of Damascus was the author of the first theological summa in the world, well before Saint Thomas of Aquinas.

John of Damascus (749), the indisputably greatest theologian of the 8th century tells us why.

John of Damascus († 749), the indisputably greatest theologian of the 8th century tells us why.

Here Saint Paul and other apostles lived and worked, Saint Ephrem, Saint John Damascene.

Well, do you know what Saint John the Damascene says? That: “not everything created can be analyzed”.

John Climacus (+650) and John Damascene (+749) communicate this teaching to the Eastern Churches.The following table helps to clarify what has just been said.

As we think particularly of Ignatius of Antioch, John Damascene and Simeon Stylites, how can we fail to recall as well the many confessors and martyrs of this region who adorned the beginnings of the Church by their fidelity to God’s grace, even to the point of shedding their blood!