Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Devotional Images: 12th - 20th century Part II

According to the teachings of the Church Tewfit, tradition embraces not only religion, church rites, culture and history; but also the rites of worship that have been handed down from ancient times without any distortions or changes. As the country was blessed from the outset and accepted the three religions of mankind, like no other country, there was no room for the Ethiopian Church to show any sign of suspicion or distrust for the artistic expressions of these religions. The fact that iconography and symbolism of the Judaic, Christian and Islamic art were not held exclusively by a particular race, group of people, individual century, or nation, but universally intelligible language and values, the Ethiopian Christian thinkers considered the validity of these artistic expressions.
Esseye G Medhin

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