RT Article
T1 On the Construction of Religious Texts: The Case of Writing a Catechism
JF NTT
VO 74
IS 4
SP 355
OP 373
A1 Pleizier, Theo 1975-
A1 Huijgen, Arnold 1978-
A1 Velde, Dolf te 1974-
A2 Huijgen, Arnold 1978-
A2 Velde, Dolf te 1974-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1743573014
AB 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.
K1 Auto-ethnography
K1 Catechism
K1 collaborative authorship
K1 genre theory
K1 Religious Texts
K1 Spirituality
DO 10.5117/NTT2020.4.004.PLEI