Znaczenie i rozumienie obrazu w teologii wizualnej

Abstract

Contemporary culture apparently favours eyesight as a model of discovering reality and visual experience as an expression of its system of values. This paper strives to demonstrate the essential significance of image in grasping visual culture. Art with its diversity of forms can play an important role in theology; therefore contemporary theology cannot ignore problems present in visual culture. The hermeneutics of images which are found in religious language and reflect current human experience must be included in theological research. Apparently, the increasingly significant role of image in the contemporary world coupled with the invasion of visual effects should result in a new approach to the theology of image.