Visual Speech - Visualising the Evangelical Message

• Authors: Kawecki Witold
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper touches upon the crucial issue of how the broadly understood visual culture enters the field of contemporary preaching of the Gospel. The role of image in contemporary culture cannot be overestimated. The communicative function of image (paintings, films or TV series) leads to the rise of visual thinking. Some interpret it in terms of lost skills of conceptual and abstract thinking, while others see it as a language that is communicatively effective, clear, suggestive and persuasive. Whatever stance one takes, evangelization through image becomes a matter of fact. It becomes an integral part of the Church developmental dynamics.

Keywords

EN

evangelization; visual theology; theology of beauty; theology of film; communication

• Publisher: Faculty of Theology at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin / Chair of the Contemporary Forms of Faith Transmission
• Journal: Biuletyn Edukacji Medialnej
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 63-73

Dates

published

2013-06-30

Contributors

author

Kawecki Witold

• Uniwersytet Kardynła Stefana Wyszyńskiego, Wydział Teologiczny, ul. Dewajtis 5, 01-815 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

ISSN

1733-0297