From poetry to religious language in Paul Ricoeur

Abstract

The poetics allows a mimetic and interpretative activity that enables a deepening in the concept of mimesis, as imaginary that unites the meditation between the real and the reader. That is, the essentially symbolic dimension contained in biblical, religious language allows us to designate the very relation between something that is not language (a symbol that always gives thought) and expresses human existence through sacred texts. Language has a character of constructing reality and is closely linked to human existence. And if it is linked to human existence, it can soon express, through the sacred texts, a hope.