When we have to explain a complex reality to simple persons, generally we use metaphors, images, and comparisons. Augustine was doing the same in his sermons. He knew that when he was preaching in Hippo, the majority of his listeners were persons of low culture and faith that is based on what they could remember in their memory. For this reason, Saint Augustine as a good orator, fills his sermons and explanations of the Sacred Scripture with images, comparisons and examples which were familiar to his listeners
Year of document: 2010.
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Autor: Enrique A. Eguiarte, OAR
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