kerygma

American  

[ki-rig-muh] / kɪˈrɪg mə /

Also kerugma

noun

• kerygmata
  plural

1. the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.

2. the content or message of such preaching.

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kerygma British  

/ ˌkeˈriːɡmə /

noun

1. Christianity the essential news of Jesus, as preached by the early Christians to elicit faith rather than to educate or instruct

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• kerygmatic
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• kerygmata
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of kerygma

1885–90; < Greek kḗrygma proclamation, preaching, equivalent to kēryk-, stem of kērýssein to proclaim + -ma resultative noun suffix

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

kerygma

The problem is to free the kerygma from its encrustation of myth so that modern man can grasp it.

From Time Magazine Archive

And no theologian today worth his doctorate would dare talk of preaching or teaching: the fashionable forms are kerygma and didache.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1953, at the annual seminar of Bultmann's "Marburg Disciples," Dr. Ernst Kasemann argued that it was time for theology to relate the Jesus of history to the proclaimed Christ of the kerygma.

From Time Magazine Archive

The saving act of God, answers Bultmann, which is what the New Testament really represents, and for which he uses the theologian's Greek word, kerygma.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the confession of the Father, Son, and Spirit and the kerygma of Jesus Christ had the most prominent place among these forms.

From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan

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