Homiletics

The Sermon on the Mount by Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter

In religious studies, homiletics (Ancient Greek: ὁμιλητικός[1] homilētikós, from homilos, "assembled crowd, throng"[2]) is the application of the general principles of rhetoric to the specific art of public preaching.[1] One who practices or studies homiletics may be called a homilist, or more simply, a preacher.[3]

  1. ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Homiletics" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 644.
  2. ^ "homiletic". Oxford English Dictionary (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. 1933.
  3. ^ Reu, M. (2009-07-01). Homiletics: A Manual of the Theory and Practice of Preaching. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-7252-2038-6.