A viva vox do evangelho: por uma homilética dialógica

Abstract

The goal of this investigation is to analyze preaching from the concept of a dialogical pronouncement. Since the place of the Word is in the worship service, we want to deepen the relationship that the preached Word has based on the sacramental and liturgical gathering. As a guide we use the question Jesus put to his disciples: “And you, who do you say that I am?” (Mk 8:29; Mt 16:15; Lk 9:20). Throughout the investigation, this question will guide us, sometimes consciously and formally, other times unconsciously and informally. We base ourselves on the works of Bakhtin which defined dialog, among the different social voices, as polyphonic. We want to apply this concept to the field of homiletics, above all, to Christian preaching. The sermon is the polyphonic dialog of the divine-human event. The way in which the sermon is carried out, its content, its meaning, its significance, the theme, the people, the culture, the institutions, Jesus Christ composes the polyphony in which the sermon is inserted. The use of the theory of Bakhtin aims at helping homiletics to show the many voices and contexts which make up the Christian sermon, as well as to reflect directly into and based on the contexts and unique and unrepeatable acts of the communicational-linguistic happening of the living voice of the Gospel. This living voice wants to resound in the world of life. It wants to dialog with the different human pronouncements which were and are proffered. The main results of the research indicate that preaching is the union of various social and cultural voices which meet in the worship service. It is the dialogical and communicative pronouncement of the living voice of the Gospel which is carried out in a linguistic event. The methodology employed in this paper is bibliographic and is focused on transdisciplinary readings.