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- Title
How Do Consecrated Objects "Speak"? The Rhetorical Function of Liturgical Objects and Garments in The Eastern Orthodox Church.
- Authors
RUSU, Tudorel-Constantin
- Abstract
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, liturgical space and liturgical objects, following the Byzantine tradition, occupy a central role. How is this liturgical significance transposed in the bishops and priests' ambon discourse? More specifically: the visible consecrated objects worn or used by the Orthodox Christian clergy while they are preaching -such as a blessing or pectoral cross, a bible, a lighted candle, a bishop's staff and even the liturgical garments in themselves - are rhetorical? This paper, by reviewing some of the classical and modern rhetorical concepts, reveals that these specific "wearable" liturgical objects are referring mainly to the preacher's pre-existing ethos, which indicates that he has a prior institutional and moral authority to address the faithful.
- Subjects
BIBLE; CLERGY; PREACHING; CANDLES; SERMON (Literary form); DISCOURSE; BISHOPS; PRIESTS
- Publication
Argumentum: Journal the Seminar of Discursive Logic, Argumentation Theory & Rhetoric, 2022, Vol 20, Issue 1, p119
- ISSN
1583-2767
- Publication type
Article