I know the seventh ecumenical council would have something to say about this, but I like C.S. Lewis on this point. From A Grief Observed:
Images, I must suppose, have their use or they would not have been so popular. (It makes little difference whether they are pictures or statues outside the mind or imaginative constructions within it.) To me, however, their danger is more obvious. Images of the Holy easily become holy images – sacrosanct. My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of his presence? The incarnation is the supreme example; it leaves all previous ideas of the Messiah in ruins. And most are ‘offended’ by the iconoclasm; and blessed are those who are not.
Who knew an Anglican could be so Presbyterian?
(HT to Bob Myers at BHT)
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Great thought of a great philosopher brought out here. Thanks for sharing. Keep us inform
Philip