THE CHRISTIAN IMAGINARY. A POSSIBLE DEFINITION
THE CHRISTIAN IMAGINARY. A POSSIBLE DEFINITION

Summary/Abstract: Narrative discourse based approach of Ernest Cassirer, C.G.Yung, Gaston Bachelard, Charles Mauron, Mircea Eliade, Henry Corbin and Gilbert Durand at midcentury is known as the theory of the imaginary. To get to issue a definition of Christian’s imaginary ought to be conducted a review of the historical imaginary, in a general sense. Religionist is essentially conflicting principles are continually confronting opposite, following the logic of the imagination, his speech is structured antithetical models: between good and evil, Christ and Antichrist. Christian discourse was the great confrontation between divin celestial and terrestrial, Satan and the Antichrist became symbols of cosmic disorder. Hero is ubiquitous, and the top of the hierarchy is the charismatic figure of the Savior, belonging to religious imaginary. No less significant is the influence of Christian imaginary posthumous great biblical charecters. They continue to act after death, sometimes with greater force. The Christian imaginary can be interpreted from a double perspective: on the one side, an imaginary whose streams are dogmas and canons of Christian theologians and clergy characteristics; and secondly part an imagionary which feeds on the folk tradition with a strong folk and echo to be analyzed from a mythological perspective. The Christian imaginary is incomprehensible content and images belonging to the imagination, the dominant value have biblical figures, saints and religious figures mythical hero and antihero, surprised in exceptional circumstances, with positive or negative influences; it is shaped like a journey of deification of being, which crosses the many fields to reach the light… the light of God.

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