From magazines to Web 3.0. Polish Missionary Media after the Vaticanum Secundum. Part 1: The Development of Social Media and the Teaching of the Church about Them in the Polish Missionary Magazines Cover Image

Od czasopism do Web 3.0. Polskie media misyjne po Vaticanum Secundum. Część pierwsza: Rozwój środków społecznego przekazu oraz nauczanie Kościoła na ich temat w polskim czasopiśmiennictwie misyjnym
From magazines to Web 3.0. Polish Missionary Media after the Vaticanum Secundum. Part 1: The Development of Social Media and the Teaching of the Church about Them in the Polish Missionary Magazines

Author(s): Marcin Wrzos
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Verbinum
Keywords: missions; Church teaching; Vaticanum Secundum; magazines

Summary/Abstract: The conducted analyzes show the technological development of the means of social communication, which from the very beginning aroused the interest of the Church. The author analyzed their evolution from petroglyphs and pictograms, through the invention of printing to the phenomenon of new media. In the teaching of the Church, initial suspicion turned into limited confidence in using them in evangelization. The Popes see in them a tool of evangelization and Christian formation, but, at the same time, they warn against possible misuse. The missionary magazines issued after the Vaticanum Secundum were analyzed – 33 titles in all, of which nine ceased their activity in recent years. The author presented the probable causes of this phenomenon. Topics of new missionary media in Poland, namely, their emergence, development and perspectives will constitute the second part of this work.

  • Issue Year: 144/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 85-108
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish