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[[File:Bloch-SermonOnTheMount.jpg|thumb|The ''[[Sermon On the Mount]]'' by [[Carl Heinrich Bloch]], Danish painter]]
 
In [[religious studies]], '''homiletics''' ({{lang-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]]''.
 
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