LE FIGARO.- In your book
Glory and Misery of the Image after Jesus Christ
, you analyze the exorbitant place that the image takes in our contemporary civilization and you link it to the Christian heritage.
What role did Christianity play in this proliferation of images?
OLIVIER REY.- The point of view which, after much controversy, has prevailed in the Eastern Church as in the Roman Church, is that for Christians not only is it allowed to represent God in human form - that, in the person of the Son, he took on - but that it should be done to attest that the Incarnation really took place, that God really became flesh in Christ.
It is obvious that the current covering of the world by an insane proliferation of images no longer responds, in any way, to this concern.
Nonetheless: imaginary cancer could not have developed without the stake with which Christianity has weighted the image.
This cancer is the manifestation of a religious power detached from
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