Per una poetica della volontà. L’immaginazione religiosa in Paul Ricœur

Ricœur believes that faith and philosophy, however autonomous, orient each other and develop in parallel. He gives a hermeneutic character to his phenomenological method by means of an interpretation of the religious consciousness confessing evil and elaborates his conception of symbols by confronting the Judeo-Christian tradition. From his scattered reflections on the religious imagination, it emerges that Ricœur finds in the literary form of the parable a “narrative schematism”, which he defines by extending Kant’s concept of the production of schemata as mediators between the sensible and the intelligible. Through his biblical hermeneutics, Ricœur finally sketches out a narrative theology, in which the “limit-expression” “the kingdom of God” and the ideal of Christ as the image of a fulfilled human existence are capable of initiating a transition from text to life.