15 Facts About Homiletics

Homiletics means the art of preaching and comprises the study of the composition and delivery of religious discourses.

Homiletics's preaching included two forms of sermon, the missionary and the ministerial, the former to outsiders, the latter to those already part of his movement.

Homiletics is taught as part of the typical curriculum at modern-day rabbinical seminaries.

Homiletics's sermons begin with exegesis, followed by application to practical problems.

Homiletics was already a trained orator, as were many of his hearers, and it is no wonder, as Otto Bardenhewer expresses it, "he had to pay tribute to the taste of his own time which demanded a florid and grandiloquent style".

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Homiletics preached twenty homilies, and dictated twenty more, because, through illness and loss of voice, he was unable to preach them personally.

Homiletics urged bishops very strongly to preach; and, after holding up to them the example of the Apostles, he threatened the bishops of Sardinia.

Homiletics goes to the Roman pagan orator Cicero for rules in the latter.

Homiletics makes a distinction, in which he evidently follows Cicero, between sapientia and eloquentia .

Homiletics adapts Cicero's ut doceat, ut delectet, ut flectat, changing them to ut veritas pateat, ut placeat, ut moveat; and lays down these as the rules by which a sermon is to be judged.

Homiletics describes it practically in relation to the classical theory of oratory, which has five parts: inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, and pronuntiatio .

Homiletics lays stress on explanation and use of Scripture and recommends the preacher to insert verba commotiva.

Homiletics insists very strongly on the importance of preaching, and says that it belongs principally to bishops, and baptizing to priests, the latter of whom he regards as holding the place of the seventy disciples.

Homiletics lays stress on Scripture as the book of the preacher.

Homiletics would treat the truths of the Gospel according to I Tim.