homiletical

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Nor did he find an easy mode of preparation for the pulpit by giving his theological lectures a homiletical form.

From Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn by Purves, George Tybout

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.

This was the homiletical method which Zeal of the Land used in his discourse at the fair.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

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

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