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== List of Works ==
===The Precious Pearl: The Lives of Saints Barlaam and Ioasaph===
[http://sites.google.com/site/preciouspearlfan ''The Precious Pearl: The Lives of Saints Barlaam and Ioasaph'']
===Early Work===
* Three ''"Apologetic Treatises against those Decrying the Holy Images"'' [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/johndamascus-images.html] - These treatises where among his earliest expositions in response to the edict by Leo the Isaurian of Constantinople, which banned the worship or exhibition of [[icons|holy images]].
===Teachings and Dogmatic Work===
* [http://www.archive.org/details/fathersofthechur009511mbp ''"Fountain The Fount of Knowledge"''], also ''"The Fountain Fount of Wisdom"'', this book is divided in three parts:
*# "Philosophical Chapters" ''(Kephalaia philosophika)'' - Commonly called 'Dialectic', deals mostly with logic, its primary purpose being to prepare the reader for a better understanding of the rest of the book.
*# "Concerning Heresy" ''(peri aipeseon)'' - In this book, in the section ''On Heresies'', he dedicates a portion to the [http://orthodoxinfo.com/general/stjohn_islam.aspx ''Heresy of the Ishmaelites''], being the first apologetic work against [[Islam]] by a Christian.