Praying With Icons: A Short History of Icons – Excerpt

By Jim Forest 18/5/2011 Visit Jim and Nancy Forest’s website here Here follows an extract from Praying With Icons by Jim Forest, published by Orbis Books, 1997; revised 2008; endnotes and illustrations have been removed: He is the image [Greek: ikon] of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. — Col 1:15 That … which we have heard and seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and touched with our hands … we proclaim also to you.