homiletical

How To Use homiletical In A Sentence

• During the Roman occupation and subsequent exile, this body of knowledge was committed to writing as an emergency measure and was formalized into what is now known as the Talmud (authoritative case law, ethics, mysticism and ritual practice), the Midrashim (homiletical stories) and the Kabbalah. Rabbi Adam Jacobs: The Essential Jewish Canon
• If the Reformation chorales were anything, they were didactic and homiletical.
• The words "homiletical" and "homily" suggest what they originally connoted; they are derived from the Greek word [Greek: homilia], "an assembly," and a homily was a discourse delivered to an assembly. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria
• Midrashim are those called homiletical, or Hagadic, which embrace the interpretation, illustration, or expansion, in a moralizing or edifying manner, of the non-legal portions of the Hebrew Bible. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
• The sorry state of preaching is reflected in, and no doubt encouraged by, the pap that passes for devotional writing and ‘homiletical helps’ among today's Catholics.
• A typical example of such an enumeration appears in the homiletical midrash collection Pesikta de-Rav Kahana 20.1. Infertile Wife in Rabbinic Judaism.
• The following homiletical tale from Pesikta de-Rab Kahana 22: 2 teaches that infertility is never more than a presumption: Infertile Wife in Rabbinic Judaism.
• They looked at me as if I were attempting sermon suicide -- or worse, homiletical homicide Leviticus would kill our congregation. Cathleen Falsani: Living Leviticus: Who Could Do It? Who Would Want To?