Icons & Images

 YouTube Debates & Discussions

Counsel of Trent

• Rebutting Gavin Ortlund on Icons (with Jimmy Akin), 19 January 2023.

Intellectual Catholicism

• Icon Veneration: A Catholic and Orthodox Case - Seraphim Hamilton, Michael Garten, Suan Sonna, 6 October 2023.
• Icon Veneration: A Summary of my Response to Gavin Ortlund, 27 May 2023.
• Icons and Doctrinal Development, 20 January 2023.
• The Case for Icon Veneration - An Almost Comprehensive Response to Gavin Ortlund, 15 May 2023.
• The Case for Icon Veneration: Nicaea II Allows For (and Implies) Development (Part One), 16 May 2023.
• The Case for Icon Veneration: Gavin's use of the Church Fathers (Part Two), 17 May 2023.
• The Case for Icon Veneration: The Ancient Jewish Roots of Icon Veneration (Part Three), 18 May 2023.
• The Church Fathers on Images and Veneration, 13 February 2023.
• What Nicaea II Really Taught - The Catholic Brothers, 13 February 2023.

Patristic Pillars

• Brothers in Arms w/Dr. Fastiggi on Nicaea 2, Veneration of Icons, & Anathemas, 1 September 2023.
• Holy Icons & Images w/ Rev. Dr. Price, 11 July 2022.
• Iconic Christianity: Refuting Gavin Ortlund on Statues & Images part 1 of 5, 24 January 2023.
• Iconic Christianity: Refuting Gavin Ortlund Part 2, 26 January 2023.
• Iconic Christianity: St. Epiphanius & the Dreadful Curtain-Refuting Gavin Ortlund Part V, 14 February 2023.
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**Note: I don't necessarily agree with every claim or point made in these videos**

Eastern Orthodox videos 

• Ante-Nicene Icons with Fr Steven Bigham, Craig Truglia, 27 January 2023.
• Gavin Ortlund and Early Christian Imagery: Beginning Our Response (w/ Michael Garten), Seraphim Hamilton, 18 October 2024.
• Hidden History of Early Christian Art, Harmony, 4 December 2024.
• The Case for Early Image Veneration w/ Michael Garten, The Transfigured Life, 10 May 2024.
• The Icon - Documentary, Orthodox Loner, 21 December 2024.

Oriental Orthodox videos

• Is there Evidence the 1st century Church used Iconography? by Fr. Gabriel Wissa, Coptic Orthodox Answers, 25 November 2020.
• Orthodox Icons: Are we worshiping graven images? by Fr. Anthony Mourad, Coptic Orthodox Answers, 18 May 2019.
• What does the Church believe about icons and their use? by Fr. Anthony Mourad, Coptic Orthodox Answers, 22 May 2019.