Reading is important as a practice that can be applied to oratory, and also by itself too.
The technical part of the art of reading deals with two objects: voice and pronunciation, sounds and words.
Quite rightly you may come to the conclusion that eloquence is the daughter of poetry. Homer sung his immortal Iliad in a time when orators were non-existent as for oratory as the art of persuading, reasoning and debating.
Preaching (pro aperto dicere) is a legitimate dispensation of the word of God. Also one has to understand it as the oral transmission of a doctrine through its authoritative ministers. So, the body of the doctrine responds to rules, precepts and principles that its agent will convey as a whole and with fidelity.
“Seemingly, people of Florence are not ignorant or rude; but Fray Girolamo Savonarola has persuaded them that he would talk to God. And I do not want to judge if this was true or not, because one has to speak about such a man with reverence; but I dare say that many persons believed him and did not see anything extraordinary to make them believe it: because his life and the doctrine and matter that he would posed were sufficient to trust him”, Nicolò di Bernardo Macchiavelli says in his “Discorsi” in relation to the man who prophesized the death of Lorenzo de Medici, the Magnificent, and of the Pope Innocent, and also the arrival of a new Cyrus to Italy.
Generally, in relation to Theology, people think at once about church or religion, and more often than not you hear commentaries that, as the obvious result of ignorance, surround this word or its meaning with certain remote and dark halo, as if it was detached from human life, and an exclusive redoubt of a group of beings –“theologians”– whose activities appear before men as something almost incomprehensible.
Theology, as a science that is mainly rational, tries to know God.
The man has two chances to achieve this attempt.
His first chance consists in thinking of God and knowing Him exclusive by reason.
The human thought adopts many forms and aspects, even in the transcendental field. But all they contain similar forms and rules; for instance, if theology is a necessary and really existing science.
As Theology is an essentially rational activity, and also a science par excellence, it must have bases as starting points and supports, and characteristic methods in agreement with its objectives.
The fundamental Theology postulates based on concepts of the Revelation, on which it builds its magnificent rational structure, are as follows:
Theology is the Only Truth.
Theology is a Divine Knowledge taught directly by God.
To know certain thing, object or discipline, always you start by knowing its qualities or properties. So, see which those properties of Theology are.
These properties are essentially of two aspects: absolute, exclusive, and fit to theology itself; and relative, complementing it and especially fit to human sciences in general.