“To seat like a lemon” or on a difficult language of sermons Cover Image

„Siedzieć jak na tureckim kazaniu”, czyli o trudnym języku kazań
“To seat like a lemon” or on a difficult language of sermons

Author(s): Leszek Szewczyk
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: sermon; language; preacher; the Word of God

Summary/Abstract: Listening to sermons is getting more and more difficult for a contemporary man. This may be due to the growing discrepancy between language used and understood by listeners and the language of preachers. The language of sermons and homilies is the literary one in its normative-anddidactic form. The official teaching of the Church shows that a considerable importance is attributed to the verbal sphere of preaching. The language of preaching should be correct, esthetic and contemporary. Also, it should be adequate, which is congruent with the reality it describes. In the preaching of the Word of God the content is the most important. The form of the utterance should serve the content.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 143-151
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish