Chrześcijański dyskurs religijny

Abstract

The following types of speech are found in Christian religion: (1) prayer, (2) narrative, (3) creed, (4) preaching or rhetoric. (5) speech used in the sacraments. (6) poetry. In all these types of speech the Christian discourse makes use of analogy, hut the soil of analogy it uses is not like other kinds ol analogy. It is only analogus to them. The way Christian religion and its discourse differs from natural religion is based on the way the divine is understood in both eases. In natural religion the divine is understood as the best, most powerful, and most admirable part of the world. In Christianity it becomes conceivable, even though it is contrary to fact, that God could be all that is, in the sense that the biblical God would lie God even if the world had not been created. We are dealing with a whole in a new sense, one that transforms the sense of the whole found in natural religion. And just as the temi „whole” is transformed, so also the terms „divine” and „world”.