Father Teophil Schinl was an Augustinian eremite from Vienna, who was active as a German preacher in Ljubljana around 1740. His sermon on the feast-day of St. George, held at the solemnity in the church of the Teutonic Order (Križanke), was printed in 1742. It relies on abundant literary devices, such as parallelisms, paradoxes, polysyndetons, climaxes etc., in order to present the problem of the opposition between man's desires and the reality and the paragon of St. George who overcame the opposition, embracing the will of God. The lecture presents this sermon as an excellent example of baroque literary culture which also gave rise to similar rhetorical prose in Slovenian language of the time.
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