Studia Pastoralne
Rocznik Wydziału Teologicznego UŚ

SIMPLICITY, COMPLEXITY AND TRIPLE UNITY OF A SERMON.
Summary
The author points at an immense importance of a character and skills of a specific preacher in preaching the Word of God. A sermon is embedded in the aura of a triple unity, i.e. is characterised by the following three dimensions: homiletic, rhetorical and spiritual. The last one contributes to the fact that each sermon is exclusively related to prayer. In the content and structure of prayer one can sometimes find a surprising rhetorics, which is a rhetorics of persuasion (while praying we wish to persuade God to fulfil our wishes). Oratio therefore is a prayer similar to a rhetorical utterance.