Uwarunkowania homiletycznej komunikacji

Abstract

The question of interpersonal communication belongs to the range of many scientific disciplines. It is also the subject matter of homiletists’ interests. They perceive in the studies on this domain a chance of development of the anthropological aspect of the ministry of the word. An interdisciplinary character of such homiletic studies, apart from the chance to develop, contains the source of one-sided approaches, or even decidedly erroneous approaches. They in turn lead to new difficulties in proclaiming the word of God. The right homiletic communication is conditioned by the following criteria: faithfulness to the Scriptures, listener-orientation, taking the situation into consideration and communicative character. These criteria have been supplemented by defining the theological frameworks of homiletic communication, worded in this formula: Abraham’s adventure and John’s introversion. This formula depicts a tendency to set a borderline between a necessary change in the Church which is being realized in time and that which is equally necessary, i.e. to abide by the unchangeable deposit of faith.