Les images sont partout, en nous et autour de nous. Notre mémoire les associe, souvent à notre insu, aux visibilités déjà assimilées. Remodelées et transformées, elles finissent à leur tour par nous façonner. Face aux pouvoirs de l'image dont l'imagination se nourrit, l'anesthésie visuelle nous guette, la perte du regard menace notre liberté, à commencer par celle des enfants. Dans ce livre, Michel Quenot ne fait pas que réfléchir sur l'image ou les images. Il médite, en définitive, sur le devenir de l'homme. Celui-ci, en effet, se transforme à l'image du monde qu'il forge. Quant à l'image cultuelle, lieu d'affrontement, elle dit l'état spirituel des croyants à travers les siècles. Les querelles autour de l'image chrétienne, ses dérives et ses accomplissements, concernent en effet la vie du monde et de chaque personne. Pour les chrétiens, l'incarnation du Dieu-homme, face visible du Dieu invisible déjà révélé dans l'Ancien Testament, féconde les visibilités et leur donne sens. Enjeu d'une lutte au coeur de l'homme, l'image véritable cédera un jour la place au face-à-Face.
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Images are everywhere, in us and all around us. Our memory associates them, often without our knowing, with images previously assimilated. Remodelled and transformed, in the end, it is they which model us. When confronted with the powers of the image, which nourish the imagination, we risk visual anaesthetizing, a loss of vision which threatens our freedom, beginning with that of children. In this book, Michel Quenot does not simply reflect on the image or images. He meditates on the future of man. For man, in fact, is transformed in the image of the world he creates. As for the cult image, a place of confrontation, it expresses the spiritual state of believers throughout the ages. Quarrels around Christian images, their corruption and their accomplishments, concern the life of the world and everyone in it. For Christians, the incarnation of the God-man - the visible side of an invisible God already revealed in the Old Testament - fertilizes visibility and gives it meaning. The stakes of a struggle in the heart of man, the true image will, one day, dissolve, leaving way for a Face-to-Face encounter.
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Images are everywhere, in us and all around us. Our memory associates them, often without our knowing, with images previously assimilated. Remodelled and transformed, in the end, it is they which model us. When confronted with the powers of the image, which nourish the imagination, we risk visual anaesthetizing, a loss of vision which threatens our freedom, beginning with that of children. In this book, Michel Quenot does not simply reflect on the image or images. He meditates on the future of man. For man, in fact, is transformed in the image of the world he creates. As for the cult image, a place of confrontation, it expresses the spiritual state of believers throughout the ages. Quarrels around Christian images, their corruption and their accomplishments, concern the life of the world and everyone in it. For Christians, the incarnation of the God-man - the visible side of an invisible God already revealed in the Old Testament - fertilizes visibility and gives it meaning. The stakes of a struggle in the heart of man, the true image will, one day, dissolve, leaving way for a Face-to-Face encounter.
Manquant sans date
EAN
9782204080347
Éditeur
CERF
Collection
Théologie
Date de parution
17/01/2008
Format
11 mm x 234 mm x 144 mm
23,00 €
