La théologie à l'école de la poétique

Abstract

Martin Heidegger's understanding of art and Paul Ricoeur's reading of the poetics of existence, developed through his hermeneutics of symbols, metaphor and narrative, opens an immense vista to a theological thinking that desires to place primacy on the hearing of the symbolic language of poetry and literature. Beginning a few decades ago, various theologians have ventured along this trajectory, but theology still remains under the dominion of 'theoria' and 'praxis' and little open to 'poiesis'. The study here presented retrieves the contributions of J. P. Manigne on the Poetics of Faith and some aspects of the writings of A. Thomasset on the Poetics of Morals, showing how this type of approach still remains a project to realize in theological discourse.