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

Authors

  • Bogumił Chmiel Nowy Sącz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/acr.1976

Keywords:

religion, language, desacralisation, form, essence

Abstract

The purpouse 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 transmited and taught, are historicaly conditioned,
variable and thus should be adjusted to mentality of conteporary culture. This
proposal rest upon assumtion that we are able to distinguish between relative “form”
of expresion and its objective “essence”/“menaning”. Consideration conducted in an
article prove that this assumtion lack of justification and such efforts to “modernise”
religious language leads do desacralisation.

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Published

2017-05-30

Issue

Vol. 48 (2016)

Section

Teologia

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