THE RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF MASCULINITY
THE RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF MASCULINITY

Summary/Abstract: Any liturgical scenario offers to the auditorium a triple repertoire: ritualic, musical, and homiletic. In this study we intend to discuss this homiletic aspect. Even if the homily does not identify itself with the lay, heathen oratory, it becomes a successful preach only due to mixture of the preacher’s charismatic talent and the laborious process of research, mediation, essentialization, systematization and precise communication of the revealed message. For both types of homilies (exegetical and thematic) we add an amendment: the priest is not a simple orator, but a speaker of the revealed truth, and a preach does not pursue the preacher’s personal success but the rendering of the revealed divine message.

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