"De rhetorica christiana" św. Augustyna : między filologią a filozofią

The main purpose of this paper is the presentation of the principal foundation creating the Christian rhetoric (rhetorica chrisitana) by the interpretation of some selected problems from the St. Augustine’s treatise entitled De doctrina Christiana (427). The discourse of the bishop of Hippo was treated through the centuries as the datum-point for authors of medieval artes praedicandi and later theoreticians of the ecdesial eloquence (e. g. Johannes Reuchlin, Desiderius Erasmus, Agostino Valier, Louis of Grenada and Bartholomew Keckermann). The analyses are focused on the influence of the Ciceronian theory of rhetoric upon Augustine in the development of his Christian rhetoric. Augustine’s concept of ecdesial persuasiveness is also presented as the consequence of philosophical and theological presumptions, prescribing the most important ways of his (re)interpretation of the rhetorical tradition, especially the Latin authors (Cicero and Quintilian).