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 The Orthodox doctrine of icons is bound up with what Orthodox belief?

            The Orthodox doctrine of icons is bound up with the belief that all of God's creation — material as well as spiritual — is to be redeemed and transfigured. God's taking a material body demonstrates that matter can be redeemed. As St. John of Damascus explained: “The Word made flesh has deified the flesh.” Thus God has deified matter and made it Spirit-bearing. If flesh so became a vehicle of the Spirit, so too can wood and paint, though in a different way.