Father Professor Sebastian Chilea. Novel Reflections on Sermon and Preacher
Father Professor Sebastian Chilea. Novel Reflections on Sermon and Preacher

Summary/Abstract: By studying Homiletics, the theologian will understand that from the pulpit he will carry out and continue a fundamental mission of the Church, a mission started by the Holy Apostles and because ofthat he will always need new methods and ideas to convey the evangelical message. As an ideologist of the sermon, Father Chil ea lefi behind, for the homiletics literature, severa! studies of exceptional value. Father Chilea makes psychological analysis of remarkable finesse, unprecedented in the homiletic literature, highlighting that a good orator is he who adapts his discourse to his audience. The main purpose of a speech is not to demonstrate the speaker's intelligence or education, but rather to get a certain response from the listeners. Even though homiletic activity is placed among the arts, through the beauty of its contents and wording, it must not be seen as an art for the sake of art, but an art serving the purpose of the believers' redemption. At the pulpit, any interest in the beautiful, correct, attractive speech must not be pushed beyond the limits ofhomiletic rules. Listeners, in Father Sebastian Chilea's view, are not literary critics, but rather most of the time just ordinary people.

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