Arquitetura teológica vieiriana: uma teologia (retórica) humanista

Abstract

Father Antonio Vieira wrote a work of circumstance — letters, sermons and papers — that he calls «choupanas» (huts), and a work of great research — The Key of the Prophets — who he also calls «palácios altíssimos» (towering palaces). In all these texts there is a rhetorical-humanistic theology, which he shares with many thinkers of his time, and particularly with its confreres. The innovative aspect of this theology is that it also makes use of «new» sources (historical reflection and Jesuit spirituality) and new inspirations (from Vieira himself) that make it unique and deserving a deepening that has not been done.