Unfortunately, traditions that consider Nicaea II to represent infallible teaching cannot reform its teaching. It is, by definition, irreformable. The Protestant tradition, by contrast, offers us a pathway of meaningful return to the practice and theology of the early church, as well as to that of later contexts like the Council of Frankfurt. It also allows us to obey the second commandment. Further, it obligates no anathemas. Therefore, it is the Protestant position on icon veneration that is not only deep in history, but biblical and catholic.
