Text from Heaven or Mini-homilies on Maxi-matters. Text-based Para-preaching Forms on Social Media Cover Image

SMS z nieba, czyli mini-homilie o maxi-sprawach. Tekstowe formy para-kaznodziejskie w mediach społecznościowych
Text from Heaven or Mini-homilies on Maxi-matters. Text-based Para-preaching Forms on Social Media

Author(s): Andrzej Draguła
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Pastoral Theology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: social media; para-preaching; brevitas; digital commentary

Summary/Abstract: Evangelization in social media (or more broadly: in digital media) takes visual and textual forms. The latter include a text, tweet or Facebook post. Their formal similarity results mainly from the size of entries, the essential feature of which is conciseness (brevitas), requiring the message to be short. The genological determinants of these forms also include: a similarity to a commentary, the connection with a biblical text, the lack of a liturgical component and the primacy of the textual form. The author proposes to use the collective term “para-preaching forms” instead of “preaching forms” in relation to the analysed forms, since they are not delivered in front of an audience.

  • Issue Year: 26/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 171-190
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish
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