homiletics
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Definition(s):
- (n) the branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies
- (n) the art of preaching
Usage(s):
- There is a good deal of homiletics and political woe-crying in his later letters, but Belloc was seldom a bore.
- Most ministers would grant that Fiorello LaGuardia's pulpit manner is unorthodox, but that his instinctive knowledge of homiletics is good, his exegesis not bad.
- 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.
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