In the narrower sense, homiletics (from Greek homilía, “conversation, speech”) denotes a theory of preaching (Sermon) developed for the purpose of didactic communication and set down in writing or a theoretical guide to the practice of preaching; in the extended sense, however, it also includes all the other bodies of knowledge, tools, and practices that target the acquisition of homiletic competence. The socio-historical locus of homil…