homiletics
[ hom-uh-let-iks ]
/ ˌhɒm əˈlɛt ɪks /
noun (used with a singular verb)
the art of preaching; the branch of practical theology that treats of homilies or sermons.
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Example sentences from the Web for homiletics
This elaborate course on homiletics and pastoral theology may be said almost to exhaust the subject.
His Homiletics and Pastoral Theology have already become text-books in many theological seminaries.
These subjects he has continued to teach ever since, with the addition, since 1872, of Homiletics.
The Canadian Portrait Gallery Volume 3 |John Charles DentIdeals are useful (a) in homiletics, which are chiefly occupied with attempts at suggestion.
Folkways |William Graham Sumner
British Dictionary definitions for homiletics
homiletics
/ (ˌhɒmɪˈlɛtɪks) /
noun
(functioning as singular)
the art of preaching or writing sermons
Word Origin for homiletics
C17: from Greek
homilētikos cordial, from
homilein to converse with; see
homily