La figura del orador cristiano en el Perfecto predicador (1612) de Bartolomé Jiménez Patón

In 1612 Bartolomé Jiménez Patón published his Perfecto predicador, [The Perfect Preacher], a work in which he explores how one can become the perfect preacher, from the point of view of the exemplariness that should grace his figure. As opposed to earlier preceptive manuals in which the author focused on rhetoric as the key to successfully crafting a sermon, in this work Patón describes the ideal orator along the lines of the dispositions ordered by the Council of Trent, along with an impassioned defense of Catholic orthodoxy. In addition, the Spanish Humanist takes up a number of fundamental aspects surrounding the religious controversies of his period pertaining to the debate on the sacraments, the Apostolic tradition and a quasi-sacramental conception of the ministry of the word.

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