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homiletics

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

uncountable

Equivalents

Françaishomilétique
DeutschHomiletik
Portuguêshomilética
5 more languages
Bahasa Indonesiahomiletikhomiletika
Italianoomiletica
Svenskahomiletik

Examples

“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.”
Thus theology got on its legs, both as a science and as an art, and with it its faithful handmaiden, homiletics.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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