Kino, które nawraca. Katechetyczna funkcja filmu na lekcjach religii

Abstract

The article deals with the wide use of feature films at religious lessons at school. It briefly indicates the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching, according to which the religious lessons should remain in interdisciplinary dialogue with other subjects. The wide application of feature films should not be confined to showing solely biblical movies. But it also concerns historical movies and those, which pertain to widely existential matters. The footage chosen by a teacher must be suitable to students’ age and maturity. A correct choice helps to familiarize the students with real life situations in different historical or traditional contexts as well as with the structure of movie itself. At the end the authoress indicates the danger of religious lessons becoming too routine. She also considers a movie to be a cultural text, hence an indirect theological source. The discourse finishes with an encouragement to use movies appropriately during the lessons.