homiletics

American  

[hom-uh-let-iks] / ˌhɒm əˈlɛt ɪks /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. the art of preaching; the branch of practical theology that treats of homilies or sermons.

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homiletics British  

/ ˌhɒmɪˈlɛtɪks /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) the art of preaching or writing sermons

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Etymology

Origin of homiletics

First recorded in 1820–30; homiletic, -ics

Example Sentences

He was studying for his doctorate in homiletics, the art of preaching, when in 1947 he taught a religion course at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

From Washington Post

The movie’s airtight homiletics are the antithesis of ambiguity.

From The New Yorker

We have enough paper pushers and machine maintainers and meeting managers and administrative advisors and email extroverts and full-time Facebook folks, but do we have any dreamers here at the festival of homiletics?

From Time

For their screenplay of Think Like a Man, Keith Merryman and David A. Newman took a more modest approach, creating characters with different humors to embody Harvey’s homiletics.

From Time

Hippolytus’s voluminous writings, which for variety of subject can be compared with those of Origen, embrace the spheres of exegesis, homiletics, apologetics and polemic, chronography and ecclesiastical law.

From Project Gutenberg