God the Communicator
Foundations of Orality
This lesson introduces God as oral communicator as the basis for oral communication strategies.
What Orality is
We all talk about orality, but what is it? Not being able to read? Storytelling? This lesson will define orality.
😃🤔🤯 Write down or make a recording of your definition of orality.
Inner speech
Orality begins in our mind and can therefore be defined as learned expressions of inner speech.1 Orality goes back before creation as God Himself expressed His inner speech creating the universe.2
We are made in His image, able to express our thoughts with learned expressions.
😃🤔🤯 Beside creation, find at least 10 examples of God expressing His mind and heart in the Old Testament through various means.
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Watch this video titled, What really are the Scriptures?
- 🎓 Charles Madinger, “Transformative Learning through Oral Narrative in a Participatory Communication Context: An Inquiry into Radio Drama-Based Training among Zambian Caregivers of Exploited Children” (Doctoral dissertation, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2022), 43–46. ↩︎
- 🌐 Billy Coppedge, “Towards a Theology of Orality,” Lausanne Movement, December 15, 2022. ↩︎
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