Editing Homiletics (section)

===Thomas Aquinas===
[[Thomas Aquinas]]'s claim rests chiefly on the "[[Summa Theologica|Summa]]", which, of course, has principally influenced preaching since, both in matter and form. He insists very strongly <ref>(III, Q. lxvii, a. 2)</ref> on the importance of preaching, and says that it belongs principally to bishops, and baptizing to priests, the latter of whom he regards as holding the place of the seventy disciples. There is a treatise entitled ''De arte et vero modo prædicandi'' attributed to him, but it is simply a compilation of his ideas about preaching that was made by another. [[Henry of Hesse]] is credited with a treatise, "De arte prædicandi", which is probably not due to him. There is a monograph quoted by Hartwig which is interesting for the classification of the forms of sermon: ''modus antiquissimus'', i. e. postillatio, which is purely the exegetic homily; modus modernus, the thematic style; ''modus antiquus'', a sermon on the Biblical text; and ''modus subalternus'', a mixture of homiletic and text sermon. [[Jerome Dungersheym]] wrote a tract ''De modo discendi et docendi ad populum sacra seu de modo prædicandi'' (1513). He treats of his subject on three points: the preacher, the sermon, the listeners. He lays stress on Scripture as the book of the preacher. Ulrich Surgant wrote a "Manuale Curatorum" (1508), in which he also recommends Scripture. His first book gives for material of preaching the usual order  ''credenda, facienda, fugienda, timenda, appetenda'' and ends by saying: "Congrua materia prædicationis est Sacra Scriptura." He uses the figure of a tree in laying stress on the necessity of an organic structure.<ref name=CE/><ref>(Kirchenlex., pp. 201-202)</ref>