ABSTRACT
The conceptual metaphors, the preacher feeds and the sermon soothes resort to physiological functions and make the homily a spectacle that cures and nurtures. Its functioning determines the cognitive process; to think something is to form a mental image; understanding the thought means comprehending that image. The greatest concern of Jesuit evangelisation focused on mediating and regulating the forming of these images and concepts among the faithful, bearers of one identity. This chapter aims to study the process in two different sermons from Quito: one a funeral sermon, delivered by Alonso de Rojas in 1645, and the other a sermon of circumstances, preached from the pulpit of another Jesuit Father, Isidro Gallego, on the occasion of the earthquakes that shook Lima in 1687. The chapter deals with the sacred oratory produced by the same Order to which the selected pieces belong, as the training of Jesuits articulates it within their own tradition.
