Question

What was the iconoclast controversy?

Answer 1

a dispute over the use of religious images (icons) in the Byzantine Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries. The Iconoclasts (those who rejected images) objected to icon worship for several reasons, including the Old Testament prohibition against images in the Ten Commandments (Ex. 20:4) and the possibility of idolatry. The defenders of icon worship insisted on the symbolic nature of images and on the dignity of created matter

Answer 2

debate in the seventh to ninth centuries of the Byzantine Empire over the Church's creation and use of icons