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 Summarize the last paragraph on page 41 of the textbook in your own words.

            The Iconoclasts, in their rejection of any representation of the human image of God, failed to understand the full meaning of the Incarnation and presented a danger to this fundamental doctrine of Christianity. They were essentially dualists: they wanted a religion freed from all contact with anything material, which they regarded as defiled, and they felt that anything spiritual must necessarily be non-material. As noted, such a view left no place for Christ's humanity or His Body. In their denial of the sanctification of matter in general, the Iconoclasts denied the deification of man in particular. That is, in their refusal to accept the consequences of the Incarnation, which is the sanctification of the material world, they overlooked the fact that man is to be saved and transfigured not only in soul, but in body. Iconoclasm was therefore much more than a controversy about religions art: the attack on icons was an attack on Christ's Incarnation and on the whole economy of salvation.