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[German Version] 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 …

[German Version] I. Ethics …

[German Version] I. History – II. Catholic and Protestant Preaching Today – III. Medieval and Modern Judaism I. History Preaching preceded its theory, homiletics. The first attempts to frame a theory of preaching were those of John Chrysostom (περὶ ἱεροσύνης/ perí hierosýnēs) and Augustine of Hippo ( Doctr. chr.), who built on con-¶ temporary rhetoric. For centuries preachers learned their art more by example than by theoretical reflection. For the Early Church, synagogue instruction (see III below), the philosophical diatribe, and the preaching of the apostles and their followers as recorded in the New Testament provided a formal model. For the rest, the rules of scholastic rhetoric (Cicero, Quintilian) continued to govern preaching into the Middle Ages and beyond. The artfully composed Latin sermons of Scholasticism, the linguistically s…

[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Christianity – III. The Religions of India – IV. Buddhism …

[German Version] I. General Preaching (from Lat. praedicare, “proclaim publicly”) is spiritual or religious speech, in contrast, for example, to forensic speech, political speech, or celebratory speech. Its setting …