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Journal Article
What Caused Iconoclasm?
2014
Overview
[...]later iconophile chroniclers generally condemned both rulers as impious and ignored their achievements. According to later tradition he also instituted a ban on images of the living and the dead. [...]the discussion ignores the high level of theological debate among Christians of different persuasions and between Christians and Jews, so prevalent in the sixth and seventh centuries. In this case, what was understood as eastern excess (giving immense power to figural images as well as relics) sparked a rejection very similar to the Muslim experience and created a strong disagreement with the papacy. Since there were very few icons in the West north of the Alps that were venerated in the eastern sense (with incense, bowing or kissing), Theodulph did not need to institute an iconoclast movement of removal and destruction.
