homiletics
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- Explanation
- Branch of pastoral theology
- Christian tradition: The preaching of Jesus
- Missionary preaching
- Homiletics in the Jewish tradition
- Early Christian church
- Decline in the West
- Middle Ages
- Renaissance
- Early Modernity
- Notable French preachers
- Conférences in Notre-Dame
- Present day
- Homiletic Directory
- Bibliography of historical development
- John Chrysostom and Augustine
- Alain de Lille
- Thomas Aquinas
- Humanist writings
- Relation to secular rhetoric
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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In religious studies, homiletics ( homilētikós, from homilos, "assembled crowd, throng") is the application of the general principles of rhetoric to the specific art of public preaching. One who practices or studies homiletics may be called a homilist, or more simply, a preacher.