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Homiletics (Gr. homiletikos, from homilos, to assemble together), in theology the application of the general principles of rhetoric to the specific department of public preaching. The one who does or studies homiletics is called homilist.

It may be further defined as the science that treats of the analysis, classification, preparation, composition and delivery of sermons. The formation of such lectureships as the Lyman Beecher course at Yale University resulted in increased attention being given to homiletics, and the published volumes of this series are a useful source of information regarding the history and practice of the discipline.

The older literature is cited exhaustively in William Garden Blaikie, For the Work of the Ministry (1873); and DP Kidder, Treatise on homiletics (1864).

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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