Du miroir au face-à-face : voir comme Dieu voit dans le Nouveau Testament

Abstract

“Seeing God” is a constant demand of the religions of Antiquity. In the New Testament, this desire has to undergo a metamorphosis. Fundamentally an asymmetrical process, sight exhibits the radical difference between the all-seeing creator and the creature incapable of seeing. Apparently the gap is bridged by the coming of Jesus who in Christian theology makes the Father visible. But is it the case? Jesus does not teach us to see but to look. He is not interested in the ophthalmic process but in faith. So much so that at the end of the process he exalts the inner vision over the external view, and that in this world there is nothing to be seen.

Keywords

• Seeing God
• vision
• New Testament
• Paul of Tarsus