In matters of exegesis he is, like Hilary, an Alexandrian; his chief productions are homiletic commentaries on the early Old Testament narratives, e.
He was an extremely precocious lad, and before he was ten had written several Latin odes, a history of the Jews and a series of homiletic outlines.
The sermon here given is characteristic of the earnest simplicity of his style, and of the theological and philosophical bent of his homiletic methods.
A Homiletic Encyclopaedia of Illustrations in Theology and Morals, A Handbook of Practical Divinity, and a Commentary on Holy Scripture.
In LB the incident is given a homiletic turn, by being told to illustrate the saint's care for animals.
Fragments of it are introduced into the Homiletic Introduction of VG, which are enough to identify it with a short hymn to be found in the Irish Liber Hymnorum, and published by Bernard and Atkinson in their edition of that compilation.
The homileticpurpose of these documents is most clearly shown in the Irish Life.
It has already been shown in the Introduction, that this Life, with its homiletic preface, was a sermon written to be preached or read on the festival of the saint (9th September) at Clonmacnois.
The Homiletic Introduction (VG I) not found in any of the Latin Lives.
Lives of Ciaran, holy water, homiletic purpose of Lives, horse ploughing, hospitality, See also almsgiving.
No modern biography, no edition of the ancient homiletic Lives, of Ciaran could be considered complete without a history of Clonmacnois, through which being dead he yet spake to his countrymen for a thousand years.
The unexpected homiletic turn given to this story in VG may perhaps find its explanation in facts now lost to us; the passage reads like a side-thrust at some actual person or persons.
The homiletic habit is hard to break, and renders its victim strangely oblivious to the passage of time.
If instead of rum he had begun with whiskey, his homiletic instinct would have led him to assert that the three perils of the Republic were whiskey, war, and woman-suffrage.
XXIII 176--a passage as significant in its way as the homiletic verses which follow the reference to heathen sacrifices in Beow.
The homiletic magazines omitted idealism and imagination; but perhaps those qualities are so common in what some people are pleased to call our humdrum modern business life that they were taken for granted.
The homiletic literature of that day indicates the unification very clearly.
He has had the assistance also of men whose acquaintance with homiletic literature is very extensive, whose critical judgments are sound and reliable and who may be regarded as experts in this branch of knowledge.
Such a comparison should in fact throw much light on the spirit and conditions of varioushomiletic periods.
Isaac Kauffman Funk, who established the business in 1876 with The Metropolitan Pulpit, now The Homiletic Review.
Probably we of the Nonconformist pulpits might here learn a lesson in homiletic tactics from our friends of the Roman and Anglican churches.
To read once more some of the homiletic manuals of our far-off days, would not be for many of us a foolish method of spending a quiet hour "between the mount and multitude!
So it has come to pass that many a preacher has fallen into a homiletic dulness quite foreign to his own disposition.
He is happy to the glowing point when he can discuss with some sharer of the call the latest homiletic creation of his mind or of the mind of his friend.
Consequently, the present work has been written with a view to the homiletic and pastoral functions of the priest, as well as those that pertain strictly to the administration of the Sacraments.
In 1946, writing in the Homileticand Pastoral Review (p.
The remaining homiletic verse of this period is too abundant to be referred to in detail; it will be enough to mention the sermons of William of Shoreham, written in strophic form, but showing little either of metrical skill or poetic feeling.
Not far from the year 1300 (for the most part probably earlier rather than later) a vast mass of hagiological and homiletic verse was produced in divers parts of England.
We are bound to say that the object announced by the compilers is on the way to be realised, and here will be given the essence of the best homiletic literature of this generation.
Marked by the competent scholarship, the sound and cautious exegesis, the homiletic tact, and the mastery of lucid and, at times, beautiful style which characterise his preaching.
There is, as in previous volumes, great diversity of thought, the homiletic matter being the product of minds widely differing in theological views.
William Durban, the editor, writing from London of John Clifford in the Homiletic Review, styles him "the renowned Baptist preacher, undoubtedly the most conspicuous figure in his own denomination.
Cassiodorus, who became a monk after resigning all his dignities, composed among other works a homiletic exposition of the Psalms, in which he makes frequent reference to the Jews, apostrophizing them, and endeavoring to convert them.
Closely related to this subject, it may be opportune to quote an article of mine that lately appeared in the "Homiletic Review" on the "Doctrinal Basis of Union in Canada.
The following article of mine on this point lately appeared in The Homiletic Review: The contemplated organic union of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational Churches in Canada has not yet been consummated.
