homiletics

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Protecting the pristine unanimity of the saintly in-group from the miasmatic hypocrisy of the devilish out-group and designing to extend theocratic dominion provide recurrent themes in Puritan homiletics, as Hawthorne, who was also the author of

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  1. noun The art of preaching.

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  • Before he came to St. Bridget's, Strahan taught liturgy, church music and homiletics at St. John's Seminary College and Theologate in Brighton for 18 years. —  The MetroWest Daily News Homepage RSS
  • The professor politely replied that no exemptions were allowed for the course, forbearing to mention that a person who could not even spell homiletics might find something to learn in a seminary course on the subject.
  • One of my pet peeves is when people will talk about homiletics or sermons and they say, "Here's the one structure that you ought to use." —  Crosswalk.com - Home
  • In general, I would say that most of them more poorly formed in their homiletics. —  Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex
  • The first content comment is that it appears that you subscribe to the prevalent perspective among liturgists today that the purpose of homiletics is to inspire rather than teach. —  Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex
 

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  1. Pl. of homiletic: see -ics. Cf. Greek ὁμιλητική (SC. τέχνη), the art of conversation.
 

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/hɑmɪˈlɛtɪks/
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