Current Communication Trends in Church Sermons

The article deals with the main aspects of the present Orthodox sermon development. Verbal peculiarity, topical specific character and a new communication format of the present sermon is considered. Changes in the style of the sermon, its thematic content and ways of communication are shown through...

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Published inProcedia, social and behavioral sciences Vol. 200; pp. 496 - 501
Main Author Morozov, Evgeniy M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 22.08.2015
Subjects
Church
communication
language
Sermon
tradition
Church
Sermon
language
tradition
communication
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Summary:The article deals with the main aspects of the present Orthodox sermon development. Verbal peculiarity, topical specific character and a new communication format of the present sermon is considered. Changes in the style of the sermon, its thematic content and ways of communication are shown through sermon text linguistic analysis. The author draws a conclusion about the trends to updating temple preaching genre preserving the traditions of the ecclesiastical canon. The article also describes the alternative forms of Christian preaching outside the church and shows the process of new modern tools of orthodox preaching appearing in the church world out of bounds of the temple.
ISSN:1877-0428
1877-0428
DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.08.101