THE THEOLOGICAL HERMENEUTICS OF EFFECTIVE GRACE IN TIRSO DE MOLINA'S PLAY “EL CONDENADO POR DESCONFIADO” (THE CONDEMNED FOR BEING DISTRUSTFUL).
photo:Casaderusia.es Introduction When beginning the research for this work, which originally consisted of making a comparison of the theme of honor between "El Alcalde de Zalamea" by Calderón de la Barca and "El vergonzoso en palacio" by Tirso de Molina, I found that it was a much-worked topic, as the most recurrent themes in Spanish Golden Age theater are precisely honor, love (whether frustrated or not), and vengeance motivated by honor. These have been extensively studied and developed over the centuries by thinkers of the stature of Menéndez Pidal with quite enlightening theories. However, what powerfully caught my attention was the theological drama presented in the work "El Condenado por Desconfiado" by Gabriel Téllez, our Tirso de Molina. It is not common to use something as profound as a theological disquisition as the argument of a play, which, moreover, was admired even in its time given the well-earned reputation for controversy that Tirso had...