Krok, Dariusz (Uniwersytet Opolski. Redakcja Wydawnictw Wydziału Teologicznego, 2000)
The aim of the article is an attempt to present the process of the reception of the sermon. It concentrates on the psychological aspects of preaching and attempts to explain basic dimensions of information processing in reception of the sermon. The article is divided into two principal parts. The first is concerned with the psychological analysis of the idea of the sermon. It describes an understanding of the sermon preached in Church and also presents the fundamental factors which are important in the structure and function of interpersonal communication: source, message, channel and receiver. The features of these factors influence the level of persuasion and determinate the changes of attitudes in human communication. The second part of the article refers to the reception of the sermon as a process. The reception of the sermon means the process o f individual acquiring of its contents. It attempts to consider the reception of the sermon in four dimensions: remembering the contents o f the sermon, understanding the information, the evaluation of the sermon, and the religious and existential assimilation. All the dimensions are treated jointly in the information processing of the sermon. The paper ends referring the possibilities of further analysis, empirical research and practical cues for preaching.
