Some remarks concerning distinction between “form” and “significancy” of religious expressions Cover Image

Uwagi na temat możliwości rozróżniania między „formą” a „sensem” ekspresji religijnej
Some remarks concerning distinction between “form” and “significancy” of religious expressions

Author(s): Bogumił Chmiel
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: Religion; language; desacralization; form; essence;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine basal assumptions lying at the bottom of intentional transformations of religious expression’s forms. According to examined concept “forms” in which these ideas are transmitted and taught, are historically conditioned, variable and thus should be adjusted to mentality of conteporary culture. This proposal rest upon assumption that we are able to distinguish between relative “form” of expression and its objective “essence”/“meaning”. Consideration conducted in an article prove that this assumption lack of justification and such efforts to “modernise” religious language leads do desacralisation.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 48
  • Page Range: 7-23
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish