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homiletics

homiletics

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The study of writing and giving religious talks
  • noun
  • /ˌhɒməˈlɛtɪks/
  • Specialized
: homilética
  • By Deacon Greg Kandra. Some wise insight from Dr. Lawrence DiPaolo, Jr. in the Homiletics and Pastoral Review: In my discussions with other seminary administrators
  • homiletics professor

So in addition to being, you know, a rabbi and all the things that that entails, he taught this should be the word of the day, Homiletics.

Examples

  • The idea that people can be "adjusted" to ideas does not seem, at least to me, a metaphysical one (although such a task might fall under the umbrellas of homiletics).

    Blog text (4)
  • I have often found that a good number of what I would consider my average students in the theological sphere (I also teach Sacred Scripture and Homiletics) often excel when it comes to the more quantitative aspects of parish administration.

    Blog text (29)
  • Save the homiletics for Sunday service, okay?

    Blog text (22)
  • His areas of special interest are, along with practical theology, congregational studies and homiletics.

    Academic text (2009)
  • The second half of this work was a homiletics manual that applied the principles of classical rhetoric to the art of preaching and was much indebted to Melanchthon's rhetoric.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Beyond homiletics, possible exemplary, paradigmatic influence, its inherent rhetoricalness is cognate of the auto's function as public ceremonial.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The autos viewed in context are quite literally "versified sermons": they incorporate and brilliantly exemplify many of the techniques of contemporaneous homiletics.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The interpolated dramatizations, sometimes allegorizations, of these Renaissance sermons assimilate the techniques of epideictic homiletics to those of drama, to the antos sacramentales.

    Academic text (1990)
  • For example, John Smalley, a student of Bellamy's, tutored Ebenezer Porter, a leading pastor-revivalist in Washington, Connecticut, and later professor of homiletics and president of Andover Theological Seminary.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The seminary offered a comprehensive course on homiletics, focusing on how to write impactful sermons.

Surface Forms

homiletics singular
homiletics plural

Morphology

homiletics = homily (opaque) = homilet + ics

The word 'homiletics' is derived from 'homily', but the suffix 'ics' indicates a field of study, which is not immediately transparent to learners without prior knowledge of the term.

Etymology

Homiletics comes from the same root as homily and the Greek word homilia, which means 'conversation' or 'talk'. So homiletics is the art or study of making and giving sermons, which is why it means learning how to write and deliver religious talks.