The Image of Christ in the Preaching of Peregrine of Opole

The article addresses the question of how the figure of Christ was presented in the preaching of this fourteenth-century Dominican. The study not only offers an interpretation of the salvific events from the life of Jesus but also provides a characterization of the Christology developed by the Dominican preacher. Particular attention is given to his use of sources — the Bible, the Fathers of the Church, and the liturgy — as well as to his knowledge of the world in interpreting the data of Revelation. The image of Christ is examined from a homiletic perspective, in the context of the distinctive features of Peregrine’s preaching. The findings of the analysis contribute to our understanding of theology and the history of preaching in Poland at the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.