Editing Homiletics (section)

{{Short description|Application of rhetoric to public preaching}}
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[[File:Bloch-SermonOnTheMount.jpg|thumb|The ''[[Sermon on the Mount]]'' by [[Carl Heinrich Bloch]], Danish painter]]

In [[religious studies]], '''homiletics''' ({{langx|grc|ὁμιλητικός}}<ref name=EB1911/> ''homilētikós'', from ''homilos'', "assembled crowd, throng"<ref>{{cite OED1 | homiletic}}</ref>) is the application of the general principles of [[rhetoric]] to the specific art of public [[preaching]].<ref name=EB1911>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Homiletics |volume=13 |page=644}}</ref> One who practices or studies homiletics may be called a ''homilist'', or more simply, a ''[[preacher]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Reu |first=M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eD77DwAAQBAJ&dq=One+who+practices+or+studies+homiletics+may+be+called+a+homilist,+or+more+simply,+a+preacher.&pg=PA1 |title=Homiletics: A Manual of the Theory and Practice of Preaching |date=2009-07-01 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-7252-2038-6 |language=en}}</ref>