ARHIVELE OLTENIEI - Universitatea din Craiova

La théologie de l’imago 221THE THEOLOGY OF IMAGO(Abstract)The present study tries to emphasize the statute of the theology of imago regarded from adouble perspective: the ontological perspective (the image of speculum) and the metaphysicalperspective (the image of Christ). This approach gives us the opportunity to rebuild the connectionbetween the East-European intellectual space, especially the Romanian choice: Nae Ionescu-Mircea Eliade-Mircea Vulcănescu-Alexandru Dragomir-Andrei Pleşu and the Occidental space,represented by Henry Corbin-Roger Caillois-Gaston Bachelard-Gilbert Durand-Michel Maffesoli-Jean-Jacques Wunenburger. The subtlety and the complexity of the ontological and metaphysicalproblem of imago result from the symbolic depth of the theology of image. In fact, the Christianityproposes another way of image’s generation: it’s the image of God who becomes visible in theperson of His Son, Jesus Christ, gifted by an ontological plenitude, similar to the one of hisprinciple that assures the function of theophany.