I just happened upon this interesting old post from the blog Disputations.
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An interesting expose of the eastern view of Icons. I think that he is a little inaccurate about Latin veneration of images in so far as that he says we do very little of it. I think that may be true in the United States were Protestantism has a great influence on people. In Europe, however, Osculating statues is very common.
I think that Icons are something that can very much draw Catholics and Orthodox together as the Iconoclast heresy was the last time (that I am aware of) that Rome was the only vioce fighting for true Orthodoxy. It is indeed questionable if true Orthodoxy would have survived it without the unswerving support of Rome.
East and West do, indeed, have a slightly different understanding of icons though I do not think that they are mutually exclusive and, certainly on the catholic side, their is a legitimate diversity of opinions. It is indeed true that using Icons as a meditative aide is common in the West (hence the emotionalism of Latin iconography). That said we also understand veneration for Icons to be a proxy-veneration for the Saint/Christ. This is most clearly seen on Good Friday where the Latin liturgy requires direct veneration of an image of the Crucifixion.
Westerners don’t venerate images? I-yi-yi, come visit my parish sometime, especially right before the Spanish Mass.
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I agree, Diane. I’ve been in Hispanic and Filipino churches that could give the Russians a run for their money. Modern white American Catholicism is not the whole of “Western Christianity.”