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 Rewrite in your own words the paragraph titled Icons as Part of the Church's Teaching.

            The Church asserts its teaching both by word and image. What Scripture is for the literate, the icon is for those who lack learning or lack the time to study written theology. St. John of Damascus advised Christians to take any outsider inquiring about the faith into a church and place him in front of the icons, for they are a “revelation and demonstration of that which is hidden.” That is, icons bear witness to the deification of man and are visible expressions of the dogma of the transfiguration, and they impart to the world the mysteries of Christianity and the age to come. Because of the mysterious quality icons have of teaching by image what Scripture teaches by word, they lead a person towards God. Icons are theology communicated in images.