In the field of good and evil. A few remarks on the role of the Second Vatican Council’s Decree on media of social communications Inter mirifica in the modern
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W polu dobra i zła. Kilka uwag o roli soborowego dekretu Inter mirifica
In the field of good and evil. A few remarks on the role of the Second Vatican Council’s Decree on media of social communications Inter mirifica in the modern world

Author(s): Agnieszka Kurnik
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Media studies, Social Theory, Globalization, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: Second Vatican Council; media; Inter mirifica; progress; conscience; morality; media;

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the Decree on media of social communications Inter mirifica adopted 50 years ago by the Second Vatican Council as the second in the sequence of the Council’s documents. The author pays special attention to the analysis of part I, focusing on the integral development of both media transmitters and media receivers as well as on the moral aspect of shaping good conscience in members of the media community, which particularly significant in the times of development and expansion of the internet.

  • Issue Year: 5/2013
  • Issue No: 2 (9)
  • Page Range: 9-17
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish