Manual of Sacred Rhetoric

Download or read book Manual of Sacred Rhetoric written by Reverend Bernard Feeney and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on 1901 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There must be art in the doing of any work in which complex means have to be employed to do it well; for art is the skillful use of such means, whether the work be a kitchen table or an epic poem. Now, Preaching relying on divine help, undertakes a very difficult and complicated work, namely, to move the will of another from a state of apathy or opposition to activity in a definite direction. To do this, several means have to be employed: obstacles and prepossessions have to be removed; interest has to be awakened; the intellect has to be enlightened by exposition and illustration; the feelings have to be aroused and enlisted; the will itself has to be brought under the direct influence of motives calculated to determine it to action. Aeterna Press