Classical rhetoric specified the steps of the way leading to a sermon (Preaching) until the 20th century: finding the material (inventio) – organization (dispositio) – presentation (elocutio) – memorization (memoria) – delivery (actio).
Traditionally, as in the work of D. Hollaz, there have been two stages on the path from the (biblical) text to¶ the sermon: interpretation (explicatio) and application (applicatio). By the 20th century at the latest, this two-stage process was being increasingly questioned – on grounds of the self-efficacy …