ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Homiletics

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Homiletics is a noun meaning The art of preaching (especially the application of rhetoric in theology).

Meaning

The art of preaching (especially the application of rhetoric in theology).

Example Sentences

Thus theology got on its legs, both as a science and as an art, and with it its faithful handmaiden, homiletics.
We will consider first what is common to Rhetoric and Homiletics, then what is special to the latter. Rhetoric is the genus, Homiletics the species.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include homiletical, speechifying, rhetoric, sermonology, rhetorology, rhetorical.

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