iconodule

Iconodulism (also iconoduly or iconodulia) designates the religious service to icons (kissing and honourable veneration, incense, and candlelight). The term comes from Neoclassical Greek εἰκονόδουλος (eikonodoulos) (from – icon (image) + – servant), meaning "one who serves images (icons)". It is also referred to as iconophilism (also iconophily or iconophilia from – icon (image) + – love) designating a positive attitude towards the religious use of icons. In the history of Christianity, iconodulism (or iconophilism) was manifested as a moderate position, between two extremes: iconoclasm (radical opposition to the use of icons) and iconolatry (idolatric veritable (full) adoration of icons).

==History== thumb|250px|right|Late 14th-early 15th century icon illustrating the Feast of Orthodoxy|"Triumph of Orthodoxy" under the Byzantine empress Theodora over iconoclasm in 843. (National Icon Collection 18, [[British Museum).]]