homiletical

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There is scarcely a chapter in all the Old Testament, and to a less degree in the New Testament, which may not be thus ingeniously transmogrified to meet almost any homiletical emergency.

From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker

His homiletical, or exegetical, writings are of more literary importance.

From Chapters on Jewish Literature by Abrahams, Israel

Herder’s own homiletical style during this period, as evinced by the sermons preserved to us, betrays no trace of Sterne’s influence.

From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Hewett-Thayer, Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman)

It is unmethodical and badly digested, homiletical in style, and abounding in biblical quotations.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

Indeed, the discourse would have failed to satisfy most of those elementary canons upon which the homiletical professors lay such stress.

From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)