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“Icons were intimately connected with the origins and growth of Christianity itself.” Thomas Matthews and Norman Muller, The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2017), p. 27

"But virtue, like a stout and hardy plant, takes root in any place where it finds a noble nature and a spirit willing to put forth effort. Hence, if we fail to think and live as we ought, we cannot in justice blame the smallness of our birthplace for it, but ourselves." --Plutarch

In the Resurrection, everyone will look like Christ.

Exactly, and that's not what Saint Dionysius believes: "When [God] beheld the dearth of divine gifts, which came upon us by our heedlessness, [He] is declared to have called us back to our first condition, by goods restored, and by the complete assumption of what was ours, to have made good the most perfect impartation of His own, and thus to have given to us a participation in God and divine things." (EH 3.3.7) For Dionysius, the Incarnation is but the culmination of the process of self-revelation and self-emptying inherent in the creative act: "Love itself, pre-existing superabundantly in the Good, did not permit itself to remain in itself unproductive, but moved itself to creation." (DN 4.10) It should also be noted that contrary to the Neoplatonists, Dionysius sees "Goodness" as metaphysically prior to "Being."