Sarx

OW DID The earlier, non-Chalcedonian churches deal with icons? A) Clearly they have their own tradition of icons - and their own style. B) They could not have been troubled, as such, by the Byzantine Emperor’s choices in theology - either pro- or anti-icon.

Some online sources seem to indicate that the non-Chalcedonian theological position was just another excuse for iconoclasm (or vice versa). I read this as an outright bias against OOs given what we now know about the OOs and their position on various theological issues. Some online sources seem to indicate that Islam, rather than the Byzantine empire’s politics, caused an outbreak of Iconoclasm among the Oriental Orthodox. But this would not explain any such issue in the Far-Eastern Churches (China, India, etc).

Do the OOs have a reduced emphasis on Icons?
Does this represent a different reaction to a later iconoclasm?
Or is this attitude a remainder from an earlier strata of Christian belief?