John of Damascus

American  

noun

1. Saint, a.d. c675–749, priest, theologian, and scholar of the Eastern Church, born in Damascus.

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John of Damascus British  

noun

1. Saint. ?675–749 _ad , Syrian theologian, who defended the veneration of icons and images against the iconoclasts. Feast day: Dec 4

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Example Sentences

A few streets away, the St John of Damascus school that took a direct hit had already resumed its normal rhythms.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2013

It’s countered by manuscripts bearing arguments from two powerful defenders of icons, St. John of Damascus and Theodore Abu Qurrah.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2012

In Athanasius the relation of the work of Christ to Satan retires into the background, Gregory of Nazianzus and John of Damascus felt scruples about this view.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various

A commentary on the pentecostal hymn of John of Damascus may also be mentioned.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various

John of Damascus based his theology upon Aristotle, like Thomas Aquinas, and Gregory of Nyssa based his own upon Plato, as the Scottish School did in the nineteenth century.

From The Agony of the Church (1917) by Velimirović, Nikolai