On the Construction of Religious Texts: The Case of Writing a Catechism
Religious texts represent a specific rhetorical genre. What does it mean to construct these texts? In order to answer this question we reflect upon our experience of co-authoring a religious text, the Ordinary Catechism (Gewone Catechismus), published in 2019. The findings include insights in collab...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Amsterdam University Press
[2020]
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NTT
Year: 2020, Volume: 74, Issue: 4, Pages: 355-373 |
Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B Auto-ethnography B Catechism B genre theory B collaborative authorship B Religious Texts |
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Summary: | Religious texts represent a specific rhetorical genre. What does it mean to construct these texts? In order to answer this question we reflect upon our experience of co-authoring a religious text, the Ordinary Catechism (Gewone Catechismus), published in 2019. The findings include insights in collaborative spirituality, a dynamic interaction with tradition, and various levels of abstraction in theologizing. Further, we analyze these findings by using genre theory. It is concluded that religious texts are responses to a rhetorical situation; they are part of genre repertoires that religious communities use to express and to experience the Christian faith. |
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ISSN: | 2590-3268 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: NTT
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5117/NTT2020.4.004.PLEI |