TY - JOUR AU - Magier, Piotr PY - 2018/01/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - What Is the Use of the Dialogue for Christian Pedagogues? JF - Paedagogia Christiana JA - PCh VL - 40 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.12775/PCh.2017.025 UR - https://apcz.umk.pl/PCh/article/view/PCh.2017.025 SP - 51-68 AB - <p>The dialogue is one of modern culture’s ‘fetishes’. It is used as a key to open many doors in different contexts, to justify many theses, especially to convince auditors how noble and true our opinion is. The popularity of the ‘dialogue’ (as a phenomenon and as a term) causes the problems with defining  the exact meaning to this name. The obvious need to have a dialogue and understanding of its essence in this context is seeming, but existing of the dialogue demands to fulfil all the requirements, which usually are not taken into account. Christian pedagogy also refers to the term of the dialogue. The dialogue and its synonyms are widely used in this pedagogic conception. The main issue is what is the aim (what is the function) of the dialogue, both for theory and practice in Christian pedagogy. The question is: whether this term is used for making Christianity more modern, or has it deeper theoretical bases? In particular it concerns keeping self-identity of Christianity in the ground of pedagogy. The article has methatheoretical character. The main aim is to define the term and functions of the dialogue in the context of Christian pedagogy. It is a set of descriptions and explanations of the problem, not a postulate.</p> ER -