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On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons is an enormously popular homiletics textbook, and has been in print for more than 100 years. It is as helpful today as the day it was written. The Handbook of Contemporary Preaching notes that it "is the most widely used text on preaching ever published; more than a century later, it is still used in many colleges and seminaries." John Albert Broadus...

the character of an oration, and was often called a logos, or discourse.1 From this word homily has been derived (after the analogy of mathematics, physics, and similar words) the term homiletics, as denoting the science or art of Christian discourse, or a treatise on that subject, embracing all that pertains to the preparation and delivery of sermons. Hoppin2 gives the following definition: “Homiletics is the science that teaches the fundamental principles of public discourse as applied to the
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