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Étant donné le contexte actuel, la notion d’initiation est devenue centrale dans la réflexion sur la transmission de la foi et la catéchèse et l’expérience chrétienne de l’initiation, le mode privilégié de la proposition de la foi. Cette expérience a une densité anthropologique et elle donne l’intelligence de la foi par l’expérience du mystère qu’elle fait vivre grâce aux médiations mises en œuvre. Ne peut-on pas alors parler d’art chrétien de l’initiation ? Une invitation à croiser expérience initiatique et expérience artistique comme chemins d’apprentissage du devenir humain, à un moment où tout consensus humaniste semble avoir disparu. Ainsi l’initiation chrétienne aura intérêt dans l’avenir à s’appuyer toujours plus sur l’expérience artistique afin de se proposer davantage comme un processus d’humanisation selon l’Évangile.

The notion of initiation has become central to the reflection on the transmission of faith and on catechesis. In the current context – an anthropological crisis and a crisis of mediation – the Christian experience of initiation is the privileged mode of proposing faith. On the one hand, the initiation experience has an anthropological density, being a radical experience of passage, of a ritualized “dying in order to live” that is a school of life. On the other hand, the specifically Christian experience of initiation confers an understanding of the faith by experiencing the mystery which it brings to life: in the sacraments of initiation, in an exchange of words and an encounter with the Word of God, in the liturgy that enables us to live the Paschal mystery in time and corporeally… Experience of that mystery which is a veritable Paschal experience of conversion and vocation. That being said, could we not speak of a Christian art of initiation? The Christian experience of initiation invites us to traverse the experience of initiation and the artistic experience as paths for learning how to become human, at a time when the humanist consensus which reigned in the past seems to have disappeared. Moreover, it would be beneficial in future to draw increasingly on artistic experience in order to present the latter as a process of humanization through the Gospel.