About Christian imaginary

Abstract

This article (a) assumes that there is no thought without image and, therefore, that the modern inculturation of Christianity entails not only the renewal of thought and language, but also that of the imaginary, understanding by imaginary the system of representations that we have in our imagination related to the purpose of the Christian faith; (b) argues that the traditional Christian imaginary was based on a pre-modern reading of the Bible and a pre-scientific conception of the world, and that
its renewal involves the acceptance of the modern methods of biblical exegesis and the compatibility between the scientific vision of the world and the Christian faith; and (c) illustrates the need of the renewal of the Christian imaginary with examples related to “the other world” and to the origin and the end of this world.