Redefining Preaching: A Beginning

• Authors: Gaines Steven

Title variants

Redefinicja kaznodziejstwa: początki

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Scholarly disagreement about preaching has suffered confusion due to definitions of the subject that do not sufficiently consider the diversity of that interdisciplinary field of study. This article provides a summary of historical perspectives that is more comprehensive than any such summary in recent literature. That overview leads to suggestions for investigating what preaching is and does.

PL

Nieporozumienia naukowe dotyczące kaznodziejstwa spowodowały zamieszanie w związku z definicjami przedmiotu, które nie uwzględniają w wystarczającym stopniu różnorodności tej interdyscyplinarnej dziedziny badań. W artykule podsumowano historyczne perspektywy, które są bardziej wyczerpujące niż jakikolwiek podsumowanie w najnowszej literaturze. Przegląd ten prowadzi do wskazówek, jak badać, czym jest a czym nie jest głoszenie kazań.

Keywords

EN

rhetoric; religion; Christianity; preaching; homiletics

retoryka; religia; chrześcijaństwo; kaznodziejstwo; homiletyka

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne
• Journal: Res Rhetorica
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 31-45

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Gaines Steven

• University of Memphis, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.29107/rr2017.3.4