On the 12th of December 2019,
Thursday, the third year student of Tbilisi Theological Academy
(the Master’s Degree Department), Archpriest Luka Khundadze made a
speech on the topic, titled: “The Reasons for the Convocation of
the 7th Ecumenical Council” (supervisor – Archpriest Maxim
Chanturia, PhD of Theology, Professor).
The speaker expounded on the
circumstances in the Church of the Eastern Roman Empire, relying on
the following sources: “Chronographia” of Saint Theophanous the
Confessor, the life of Saint John Bishop of Goths, the Lives of
Saint Plato the Confessor and Saint Tarasios of Constantinople, the
letter of Adrian Pope of Rome sent to Charlemagne. In addition,
Archpriest Luka Khundadze gave a survey of the history of
Iconoclasm, of their main standpoints, and highlighted the Teaching
of the Orthodox Church on the veneration of icons, as opposed to
it.
