説教学

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その牧師は説教術に熟達していた。 魂を癒す処方を、 舌や脈拍、心臓、呼吸を診断して 厳格に調合した。 その薬は見事に効いた―― 十種のアダムに悩む魂が、 病を自覚する前に快方に向かった。 だが悪口の舌はこう言った。 「金持ちの患者には、 錠剤は砂糖で、吐剤は蜂蜜だ」と。 ―― 『ポッター主教伝』

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Original

The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

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So skilled the parson was in homiletics That all his normal purges and emetics To medicine the spirit were compounded With a most just discrimination founded Upon a rigorous examination Of tongue and pulse and heart and respiration. Then, having diagnosed each one's condition, His scriptural specifics this physician Administered—his pills so efficacious And pukes of disposition so vivacious That souls afflicted with ten kinds of Adam Were convalescent ere they knew they had 'em. But Slander's tongue—itself all coated—uttered Her bilious mind and scandalously muttered That in the case of patients having money The pills were sugar and the pukes were honey. Biography of Bishop Potter