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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare, Eastern Orthodoxy, derogatory) An opponent of onomatodoxy..
[…] they at first were unable to present to the onomatoclasts the teaching concerning the divinity of the Name of God that they knew through their experience of prayer, but were not always able to articulate in words.
According to the self-proclaimed apologists of imjaslavie the onomatoclasts, in rejecting the divinity of the revealed names and God's undivided presence therein, sided with Palamas's opponent Barlaam of Calabria, who had denied the full divinity of God's energies and their inseparability from His essence.
An onomatoclast sees a face as a mere mask, perceives an icon as piece of wood and hears a name as an empty sound.
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Onomatoclast means (rare, Eastern Orthodoxy, derogatory) An opponent of onomatodoxy..
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[…] they at first were unable to present to the onomatoclasts the teaching concerning the divinity of the Name of God that they knew through their experience of prayer, but were not always able to articulate in words.
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