homiletical

Example Sentences

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It seems to me clear that the chief office of the church is liturgical rather than homiletical.

From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker

There is a certain level of generality below which a cultivated sense of the proprieties in homiletical discourse will not permit a well-bred clergyman to decline in his discussion of temporal interests.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

These words, which we treat, almost unconsciously, as the exaggeration of homiletical appeal, state no more than the sober possibility, the experience attained by many a Christian in circumstances of the greatest suffering and deprivation.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

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

Their productions may be classed under the heads of biblical, controversial, doctrinal, historical, and homiletical.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch