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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.


homiletics British  
/ ˌhɒmɪˈlɛtɪks /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of homiletics

First recorded in 1820–30; see origin at homiletic, -ics


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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 ● Apr. 19, 2012

Says Donald Macleod, who has taught homiletics at Princeton for 32 years: "The minds of listeners are geared to TV and the 30-second commercial."

From Time Magazine Archive

Even when he can find the time for some sort of minimal preparation, many a younger minister finds himself inadequately trained in homiletics, the art of the pulpit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thirty years ago in homiletics, he was teaching us not only the Scriptures but also Grapes of Wrath and Scarlet Sister Mary.

From Time Magazine Archive

William Chappell was an Arminian and a tool of Laud, who afterwards procured him preferment in Ireland, and, as Professor Masson judges from his treatise on homiletics, "a man of dry, meagre nature."

From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

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