Pathetical Narrative as a Persuasive Strategy in Protestant Sermons

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2154-8633/CGP/v14i04/121-143" target="_blank" >10.18848/2154-8633/CGP/v14i04/121-143</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Pathetical Narrative as a Persuasive Strategy in Protestant Sermons

Original language description

One of the common denominators that underlie Protestant sermons is their narrative character. Storytelling of different genres with different phases and culminations seems to serve the needs of the church for teaching through preaching. The storyline of sermons may include biblical stories (Gospel as well as other stories, such as parables), a story from a different source (lyrics, a poem, a joke, media, fiction, etc.), or a personal story (reminiscences, experiences, and the like), which is a narrative in the broadest sense of the word. The story, as such, carries the line of narration and helps point out ideas, illustrate the doctrine, and draw conclusions. Moreover, the narrative line in sermons naturally includes all three Aristotelian persuasive appeals. The linguistically oriented, corpus-driven article strives to look at narrative, especially its pathetic aspect, as a tool of persuasion. I aim to demonstrate how stories take believers by the hand and lead them to persuasion, conviction, and belief. The article argues that the narrative line in Protestant sermons appears to be a constitutive feature: not only does such a sermon attract the attention of listeners more easily, it enables the preacher to construe the intended structure of the message gradually and to conclude the sermon with a true (typically pathetic) punchline, in other words, a message that aims directly at the hearts and minds of the audience.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society

ISSN

2154-8633

e-ISSN

2154-8641

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

121-143

UT code for WoS article

001297268400007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85191556893