Abstrakt:
The paper deals with an FSP analysis of the primary religious discourse offered by the New Testament poetic texts. It focuses especially on the aspect of ideology and its manifestation in the discourse. Most characteristic features investigated within the texts may be labelled as generally religious and are closely related to the basic purpose of the religious communication, to persuade the reader of the veracity of the Christian doctrine. Among other tools, the ideology is presented via gradation effect, lexical and semantic density, repetition, syntactic patterning, emotional appeal, explicitness, etc. Finally, poetic religious texts (such as canonised prayers) are obviously affected by their sacral and ritual use.
