On the Holy Icons (Biblia.com)

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To many modern Christians the question of icon veneration may seem a marginal issue in theology. To St Theodore the Studite, writing in the midst of the iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries, it was clear that iconoclasm is a serious error, which alienates its followers from God as much as any other heresy. That is to say, rejection of Christian veneration of images...

return to the events and remember them; while at the same time we avoid the unspiritual effect of material representation. For ‘God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth,’ as the Scripture says.”38 If you admit that the acuity of sight is equal to that of hearing, which is true, you must take the equivalence seriously: let the sacred Gospel book also remain only for hearing, and not be venerated (although it is holy). But if this is foolish, why is not your suggestion

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