The Word, Idol or Icon?

It has been a while since I stopped by the Website of Unknowing. Always good and interesting things there. Carl shows respect for everyone across the theological spectrum. I particularly liked these thoughts which educated me on the difference between an idol and an icon and that the Word should be received as the latter: The Word As Icon. The concept of an icon is not really part of my Southern Bible Belt spiritual roots so it is not part of my religious instincts. From reading this maybe it should be. He says:

"an icon functions as a luminous “window onto heaven,” directing our gaze and our love through and beyond itself to that which can never be contained by anything of human design."