https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.1886
This article examines the religious formation of young people in the digital media age from the perspective of Christian personalism and the humanism of Francis de Sales. It starts from the thesis that digital media are not merely tools of religious communication, but also function as a cultural environment that shapes young people’s experience of faith, identity, and social relationships. Drawing on contemporary research on digital religion, the mediatisation of religion, and youth religiosity, the author highlights both the potential of digital religiosity and its structural limitations for religious formation. The main contribution of the article lies in applying Christian personalism as both a hermeneutical framework and a critical criterion for evaluating digital religiosity. Referring to the thought of Emmanuel Mounier and Karol Wojtyła, the author argues that religious formation cannot be reduced to affective experience, media expression, or the selective consumption of religious content, but should lead to the integral development of the person as a relational, free, and responsible being. The humanism of Francis de Sales is presented as a pedagogical and spiritual paradigm capable of entering into a creative dialogue with digital culture, emphasising the gradual nature of growth, pedagogical gentleness, and the unity of reason, will, and affectivity. The article shows that Christian personalism, reinforced by the Salesian perspective and the teaching of the contemporary Magisterium of the Church, provides an adequate framework for the theological assessment of young people’s religiosity in the world of digital media and indicates directions for responsible and integral religious formation.
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