In fact, he hardly mentions it at all, since it does not fit the formal schematic of his conception of the history of philosophy as a conflict between dogmatic rationalism and sceptical empiricism.
Icons, finally, may represent religious doctrine and the theological treatment of dogmatic themes, as well as other religious beliefs, religious experiences, and conceptions of a more individualistic nature.
But this means that, despite their rejection of the existence of cognitive impressions and their new principle of rationality, their skepticism was heavily parasitic on Stoic epistemology: they accepted a dogmatic epistemological framework, including the Stoic theory of impressions, Stoic empiricism, the Stoic conception of knowledge, and so on.
The dogmatic constitutions of the First Vatican Council (1869 70) and papal definitions of the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception (1854) and of the Assumption (1950) also have some of the character of confessions.
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One does not need to see this as a weakness to notice that the ties between mitigated skepticism and its dogmatic framework render it liable to redundancy, in a way radical skepticism is not, if the philosophical conception of knowledge itself changes.
Some of the Marian festivals, notably the Nativity of Mary (September 8) and her Assumption (August 15) were retained by Luther whereas the feasts of her conception and presentation in the Temple were suppressed "because they were judged to have no scriptural or dogmatic interest".
Brunner saw this doctrine as a key to the biblical conception of revelation and further developed his views in several books, among them Revelation and Reason (1941), Dogmatics, 3 vol. (1946 60), Justice and the Social Order (1945), and Christianity and Civilization (1948 49).
