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homiletics

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Homiletics ( Gr. homiletikos , from homilos , to assemble together), in theology , is the application of the general principles of rhetoric to the specific department of public preaching . The one who practices or studies homiletics may be called a homilist ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Homiletics \Hom`i*let"ics\, n. [Cf. F. homil['e]tique.] The art of preaching; that branch of theology which treats of homilies or sermons, and the best method of preparing and delivering them.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1830, from homiletic ; also see -ics .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies the art of preaching

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The art of preaching (especially the application of rhetoric in theology).

Usage examples of homiletics.

The sermon, though bad exegesis, was often good homiletics in its own right.

The frank theocracy of the New England colonies had scarcely succumbed to the libertarianism of a godless Crown before there came the Great Awakening of 1734, with its orgies of homiletics and its restoration of talmudism to the first place among polite sciences.

Comparative religion, homiletics, higher criticism, apologetics, Hebrew, Latin, Greek, all require scholarship.