Theology of the Light
The theology of the Light is a Théologie which was expressed in the architecture known as Gothic, and which guided the design of the Cathédrale S Gothics in all the Europe.
The prototype is the Basilique Saint-Denis, designed at the 12th century by Suger, close adviser of Louis VI.
Georges Duby, in the Time of the cathedrals (1975), described under the Artistic angle , the Theology of the Light.
According to Vitellion, intellectual of the 13th century century, one distinguishes two kinds of Lumière S: the divine light (God) and the physical light (the demonstration of God).
In the theology of the Light, the Lumière is in charge of a force symbolic system. The stained glasses of the churches Represent Scène S of the Old Testament and New Testament, life of the Saint S or daily life. They are the illustrated equivalent modern Catéchisme. With the the Middle Ages, it was one of the illiterate means of very often teaching Population S as a whole.
When the Lumière of the Ciel (physical) passes through the stained glasses, it takes care symbolically of a divine demonstration. The stained glasses are charged to transform the physical Lumière into divine light, in other words to insert the divine presence in the church.
See too
- Light
- Symbol
- Gothic architecture
- Gothic art
- Basilica Saint-Denis
- Cathedral
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