Nowotestamentalna idea przepowiadania

Abstract

The author analyses such concepts as “euaggelizein”, “keryssein”, “katechein”, “didaskein”, “didache”, “martyrein”, and others, occurring in the New Testament. These terms can be divided into two groups. In the first group there would be terms which have a missionary character, such as “to evangelize”, “to announce”, and “to witness”. They serve to denote the activity of preaching to all the people, irrespective of their previously held beliefs and moral attitudes, the salvation brought by Jesus Christ. The other group would contain the terms which denote the activity of training those who are already believers but need a deeper and more systematic presentation of religious truths. Here belong the verbs “didaskein”, and “katechein”.