kerygma
- noun
- /ˈkɛrɪɡmə/
- Formal
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kerygma
- Organic unity and unity-in-diversity together comprise the kerygma, the essential teaching of the Baha'i Faith.
Examples
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Though the empty tomb is not mentioned in the writings of Paul and Acts, Deneken suggests that it was incorporated into the kerygma of the early church.
Academic text (2008) -
To preach the kerygma is to have reconciled the necessity of the death of Christ.
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Unless there was never an intention actually to explore the question, and it was always meant as a kerygma of faith on your part.
Blog text (19) -
The "what" of the kerygma flows from the "why" of the sudden belief in Jesus as Lord.
Academic text (2008) -
Some 70 years after Vacant, Karl Rahner and Karl Lehmann in their article on kerygma and dogma.
Academic text (2002) -
If you ask the first question and answer 'Yes,' then you are defining the Resurrection as the disappearing of the body, and so are comfortably and conservatively short of the Resurrection kerygma.
Academic text (1990) -
In the early Church, it was commonly held that when the bishops proclaimed the apostolic kerygma, they did so in confidence that they were united with their brother bishops in the proclamation of the one faith in Jesus Christ.
Academic text (2002) -
Moreover, Praja offers no counterclaim to the prophetical kerygma, because, like Hebrew wisdom, it is not concerned with the historical notion of redemption.
Academic text (1999) -
And there is something slightly presumptuous about the annexation of the breadth and complexity of Buddhism under a category of wisdom, which, while integral to the Hebrew canon, still represents something of a sideline to the prophetic kerygma.
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The early Christians dedicated their lives to sharing the kerygma of Jesus Christ with everyone around them.
Synonyms
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3.6
A speech about religion given during a church service
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6.5
To tell people the Christian message to make them believers
Telling people the basic message about Jesus, like that he died and rose from the dead
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word kerygma comes from a Greek word kerygma meaning 'announcement' and from keryx, a 'herald' who announced important news. Think of a herald calling out the gospel — that's why kerygma means the public preaching or announcement of the Christian gospel.