Transmisión poética y dramatúrgica del dogma en el auto El nuevo palacio del Retiro de Calderón. La teología eucarística en metáforas

• Main Author: Dominique Reyre
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Presses universitaires du Mirail 2008-03-01
• Series: Criticón
• Subjects: Calderón de la Barca Pedro; Eucharistic theology
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/criticon/10599

This study analyzes metaphors that Calderón develops and stages in the auto sacramental entitled El nuevo palacio del Retiro in order to defend and render explicit the central notion of the Eucharistic dogma of Transubstantiation —a notion redefined by the Council of Trent to oppose the concept of Consubstantiation proposed by Luther. Focusing on didactic and poetic aspects of the auto, this study underlines the exceptional creativity that allows Calderón to correct the abstract and apparently contradictory aspects of the dogma, thus rendering it accessible to the senses of Man without touching the sacred.