Le catalogue comme architecture en trompe-l’oeil? Les métamorphoses de la croix chez Tertullien et Minucius Felix

In the first half of the 2nd Century C.E., Latin Apologists Tertullian and Minucius Felix wrote short catalogues of various things in which the shape of the Cross can allegedly be discovered. Both excerpts seem to complement each other in building an architecture not of knowledge but of belief and r...

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Main Author: Fabien NOBILIO
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Published: Editura Muzeul National al Literaturii Romane 2017-11-01
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Online Access:http://www.diversite.eu/pdf/14_2/DICE_14_2_Full_Text_p27-p44-Fabien-NOBILIO.pdf
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description In the first half of the 2nd Century C.E., Latin Apologists Tertullian and Minucius Felix wrote short catalogues of various things in which the shape of the Cross can allegedly be discovered. Both excerpts seem to complement each other in building an architecture not of knowledge but of belief and ritual process. Now this rhetoric building can be compared to an architecture in trompe-l’oeil style. This style might not only be due to the fancy of Christian writers, nor to the polemics with the Polytheists, but would better be seen as a way of shaping the imagination. Modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s criticism of idolatry highlights this process as well as it shows how easily it could be started with a catalogue.
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spelling doaj-art-2ab2fb649bf443b3b3fc9b2f66d0907c2025-08-20T02:23:36ZdeuEditura Muzeul National al Literaturii RomaneDiversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa2067-09312017-11-0114/220172744Le catalogue comme architecture en trompe-l’oeil? Les métamorphoses de la croix chez Tertullien et Minucius FelixFabien NOBILIO0Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etude des Religions et de la Laïcité (CIERL) Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)In the first half of the 2nd Century C.E., Latin Apologists Tertullian and Minucius Felix wrote short catalogues of various things in which the shape of the Cross can allegedly be discovered. Both excerpts seem to complement each other in building an architecture not of knowledge but of belief and ritual process. Now this rhetoric building can be compared to an architecture in trompe-l’oeil style. This style might not only be due to the fancy of Christian writers, nor to the polemics with the Polytheists, but would better be seen as a way of shaping the imagination. Modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s criticism of idolatry highlights this process as well as it shows how easily it could be started with a catalogue.http://www.diversite.eu/pdf/14_2/DICE_14_2_Full_Text_p27-p44-Fabien-NOBILIO.pdfCatalogueCrossEarly ChristianityGreco-Roman PolytheismIdolatry
spellingShingle Fabien NOBILIO
Le catalogue comme architecture en trompe-l’oeil? Les métamorphoses de la croix chez Tertullien et Minucius Felix
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa
Catalogue
Cross
Early Christianity
Greco-Roman Polytheism
Idolatry
title Le catalogue comme architecture en trompe-l’oeil? Les métamorphoses de la croix chez Tertullien et Minucius Felix
title_full Le catalogue comme architecture en trompe-l’oeil? Les métamorphoses de la croix chez Tertullien et Minucius Felix
title_fullStr Le catalogue comme architecture en trompe-l’oeil? Les métamorphoses de la croix chez Tertullien et Minucius Felix
title_full_unstemmed Le catalogue comme architecture en trompe-l’oeil? Les métamorphoses de la croix chez Tertullien et Minucius Felix
title_short Le catalogue comme architecture en trompe-l’oeil? Les métamorphoses de la croix chez Tertullien et Minucius Felix
title_sort le catalogue comme architecture en trompe l oeil les metamorphoses de la croix chez tertullien et minucius felix
topic Catalogue
Cross
Early Christianity
Greco-Roman Polytheism
Idolatry
url http://www.diversite.eu/pdf/14_2/DICE_14_2_Full_Text_p27-p44-Fabien-NOBILIO.pdf
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