Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : a tale of three sabbaticals
  • preacher
  • 1. Morteira's historical image
  • 2. manuscript/s
  • 3. In the preacher's workshop
  • 4. sermon as oral performance
  • community
  • 5. Reflecting life : individuals, events, institutions
  • 6. Shaping life : the rhetoric of rebuke
  • From past to future
  • 7. Homiletical uses of historical memory
  • 8. Christianity and the "new Christians"
  • 9. Exile and its culmination
  • texts
  • "The dust of the earth"
  • "The land shudders"
  • "Do not add to his words"
  • "When they agitated against God" [with facsimile of the original manuscript]
  • "Guarded him as the pupil of his eye"
  • "They provoked my jealousy with a non-God"
  • Eulogy for David Masiah
  • Eulogy for Moses de Mercado.