Las artes de un predicador en guerra con las Luces:teoría y práctica de la oratoria sacra según el epistolario de Fray Diego José de Cádiz

Abstract

At the end of the eighteenth-century, the most famous travelling preacher in Spain was the capuchin Fray Diego José de Cádiz, a perfect instance of the kind of sacred oratory developed in the so-called «popular missions». This paper studies his rhetorical model of preaching as seen through the correspondence with his spiritual director, Fray Francisco Javier González; in these letters we can find out the implications and whole sense of the theory and practice of contemporary religious oratory.