books.google.ca - Both accurate and readable, this first complete rendition of the treatises on the divine images was translated by Andrew Louth, the preeminent scholar on St John of Damascus. In AD 726 the Byzantine emperor ordered the destruction of all icons, or religious images. Thus was inaugurated a period in which...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Three_treatises_on_the_divine_images.html?id=x_U1mtafEPMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThree treatises on the divine images