homiletic speech. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The homiletic was the favourite style of preaching during the Middle Ages; and many of the sermons then preached might, from the frequent use of the Sacred. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
The homiletic interpretation contains two sections. From Wordnik.com. [Tannaitic Literature, Inclusion of Women.] Reference
Austin Phelp's theory of balance in homiletic style. From Wordnik.com. [American Rhetoric - Christian Rhetoric Scholarly Reference Guide] Reference
No modern biography, no edition of the ancient homiletic Lives, of. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
The homiletic purpose of these documents is most clearly shown in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
I love the Word's ability to rise again from chronic, homiletic burial. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Cairns: The Feast of the Transfiguration] Reference
At any rate, this was obviously a moment of homiletic transparency for Akinola. From Wordnik.com. [Rev. Astrid Storm: Bad Company Corrupts Character] Reference
Change in history -- homiletic history -- sees events themselves as the change. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future] Reference
Some few passages have distinctly the homiletic or legendary tone about them. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Postmodernism and the function of the new homiletic in Post-Christendom congregations. From Wordnik.com. [American Rhetoric - Christian Rhetoric Scholarly Reference Guide] Reference
I was extrememly impressed with the conversational, authentic, under-stated, homiletic style. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Flirting with Emergent, part III] Reference
"Old English homilies and homiletic treatises ... of the XIIth and XIIIth centuries," ed. Morris. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
In LB the incident is given a homiletic turn, by being told to illustrate the saint's care for animals. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
Perhaps too, like them, we have come to a time when homiletic history and actual reality have begun to part ways. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future] Reference
We use homiletic history the same way, and likewise make grand opera out of our wars to sanctify national narrative. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future] Reference
A homiletic dogmatic interpretation says: you shall not make yourself into an idol, and come to believe that you are G-d. From Wordnik.com. [Recap: The Rabbi, The Reverend & The Renegade | Jewschool] Reference
There is a poetic half, let us say a homiletic half, what we call Agada, as distinct from the legal portion called Halacha. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
But if the endpoint is a homiletic given, the journey itself is more charming, and less sentimental, than you might suspect. From Wordnik.com. [All Grown Up On The Inside] Reference
Genesis 6-8 can be interpreted as a homiletic story such that the “world” that was flooded was just the area that Noah knew. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Dole Stumped When Asked To Name Anyone Who Believes ‘The Terrorists Can Be Appeased’] Reference
Up in New Hampshire you can't do much but rest, but here you can improve your taste and collect a good deal of homiletic material. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
From him Saxo borrowed a multitude of phrases, sometimes apt but often crabbed and deformed, as well as an exemplary and homiletic turn of narrative. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
I have therefore usually attempted -- briefly, and not in any homiletic spirit -- to indicate the religious value and significance of its several books. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference
There is hardly another example in homiletic literature of such compactness, such solidity, such logical consecutiveness, such cogency, such freedom from surplusage. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Prior to that I had prepared my sermons according to no homiletic rule. From Wordnik.com. [The story of my life, or, More than a half century as I have lived it and seen it lived,] Reference
Archbishop of Rossano in Calabria (1129-52), a celebrated homiletic writer. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
The homiletic literature of that day indicates the unification very clearly. From Wordnik.com. [History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology] Reference
There are three kinds of beauties -- I was foreordained to be homiletic; I can never stick to a story. From Wordnik.com. [Options] Reference
It is a homiletic magazine which has continually grown in magnitude and favor and serves well its object. From Wordnik.com. [The Anthology of Zion Methodism with an Appendix] Reference
Willioughby+ makes reference to the bishop asking him to be more factual and less homiletic in his writing. From Wordnik.com. [Stand Firm] Reference
Such a comparison should in fact throw much light on the spirit and conditions of various homiletic periods. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin] Reference
He took up the teaching of apologetics and homiletics, with the direction of the homiletic seminary, on 1 January, 1867. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
Hence religious questions are never discussed in the Press, and the ecclesiastical literature is all historical, homiletic, or devotional. From Wordnik.com. [Russia] Reference
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