The Christian icon is a religious ritual ,not an art

Abstract

One of the meanings of the word “ Icon”  in the Greek it means sacred writing the term icon writing stands out to us instead of drawing carving or depicting the icon. Considering that the icon is areligious ritual in the first place.That is amerger between symbol and drawing as it extends in  divine thought to express relingious visuals in Eastern Christian religion.

In this paper we dealt with the icon its past and how it began in tombs and tunnels For fear of persecution of the Jews .and how these icons were characteion and liberation in representation for the same reason the fear of abuse and killing by jews and pagans, and this killing also came to make the icon a religious ritual that the reader and non-reader can understand .It is symbolic expression of the existence of the faith in God or  who is on his behalf from the guardians on earth.

Icons moved to the third century Ad by Emperor Constantion who became Christian. Likewise, the iconoclasm was afierce war brokeout against the icon between two parties. The first said that they should be investigated and that religious teachings were revealed in Bible, so there is no need for icons. The other team said that the icons don’t touch God and it is natural to explain the teachings of AL-Dim to all belivers.