Logic of the Iconophiles during the Second Iconoclasm (in Russian)

The Second Iconoclasm turned out to be a challenge to the Christology of the Iconophiles. They were driven to a standstill with no logically consistent way out. Thus, Patriarch Nicephorus and Theodore the Studite adopted two different strategies. Nicephorus’ Christology became illogical in its core, whereas Theodore dared to explain openly the basic paraconsistence of the patristic Byzantine usage of the Aristotelean categories. Namely, he constructed his Christology as a transposition of Maxim the Confessor’s teaching on the deification of the man.