%0 Journal Article %T "Este serm¨®n es moneda de todo valor": La circulaci¨®n de un saber de buena ley en la oratoria sagrada novohispana de principios del siglo XVIII %A Urrejola D %A Bernarda %J Acta literaria %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0717-68482011000200005 %X this article focuses on sermons preached in new spain, now m¨¦xico, during the first half of the eighteenth century. after establishing the basic characteristics of sacred oratory and after describing the production of a sermon as a process, this article discusses a recurrent topic in preaching, typically present in the preliminary pages of the printed versions (licenses, approvals): metaphor of the sermon as good law currency. %K sacred oratory %K rhetoric %K knowledge %K power. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0717-68482011000200005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en