Il valore dell’Icona nell’ambito liturgico a partire dalla relazionemente-corpo-immagini
The Mind- Body-Images report and the Icon’s Importance within the Liturgical Framework

Summary/Abstract: The problem of the link between mind and body gave rise to a special interest for people of all times and cultures thanks to the multiple involvements which such a problems possess, in particular those of religious nature. The importance of this aspect is given first of all by the fact that the entire human being, mind and body participates at the liturgical life of the Church, and in that direction the body opens the access to a whole senses, images and perceptions palette. The same religious experience articulates – especially in the Christian orient – either from the concepts, either from the images, whereas at the emotional level the image has a conclusive importance. The present study puts in parallel some aspects of the liturgical life of the Orthodox Church with the ideas of the cognitive sciences which lately constitutes an important chapter in the study and interpretation of the religion and of the religious life. The convergence of these two averages apparently distant is built, in fact, from an important aspect of the anthropology knowledge which is that the knowledge process is configured first of all like something that gets birth from the body, sensibility, emotions; something which is always expressed through a complete interaction between body and mind. Thus if the cognitive theories tend to keep unit the body and mind, if I talk about knowledge in the terms of a complete interaction with reality even through the gestures, the mimicry and the entire body, then we deal with what Christianity, through the liturgical life, has carried out and preached in the ancient times.

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