Using visual representations in Christianity has a very long tradition. In this sense, if one understands Christian faith as "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11,1), an icon can be understood as a materialized faith, faith given "shape and body" in the course of history. Orthodox theology thus uses the concept of "icon" not only for visual representations of saints, but also for any media, actions, objects and even persons that perform this "iconic" role of "making present" here and now "things invisible" (cf. For these reasons, icons are honored the same way Christians have traditionally venerated the cross, or the Holy Scripture the Scripture expresses Christian faith with words, while icons do so with visual elements. Many Orthodox theologians call icons "theology in colors" 3 to stress that it is not simply a form of art which is used in or by the Church the significance of icons lies in their capacity to express the Christian faith and to "iconize" ( make present, although not fully and perfectly) the Kingdom of God already in the course of history. 2 In its contemporary usage in the Orthodox Church, the word is usually applied to the above-mentioned depictions that are painted on wooden panels, placed individually or as parts of iconostasis (altar screen). 1 However, the concept of "(holy) icon" is used in the Christian tradition to characterize not just any image or representation but, more specifically, the depiction of "Christ, Mother of God, a saint or an event from the sacred history, whether it be a sculpture or a painting on wood or on wall, regardless of the technique applied". εἰκών/εἰκόνα) primarily means "image", "likeness", "representation", or "depiction". Based on this, the article also explains the aesthetic elements of traditional Orthodox Christian iconography in connection with the complex web of mutual exchanges and influences (both theological and visual/stylistic) between Orthodox Christianity and Western European religious and artistic tradition. This article primarily examines the Orthodox Christian understanding of the image (icon) and its function within the context of the Orthodox Church and her theology. the "original") that the medium/image communicates. Both in its Christian and in the pop-cultural contexts the "icon" implies a specific relationship between the spectator, the image (visual medium), and the message (i.e. Although the meaning of these "icons" is different from the way this concept is used in Christian art and theology, it is not completely unrelated to the ancient connotations of the term "icon/iconic".
"stars") or the "icons" that we find on our computer screens. It is used to denote things like the "icons" of our pop-culture (i.e. The word "icon" (and the adjective "iconic") is not an unfamiliar concept to the contemporary reader. Davor Džalto Original auf Original in English,
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