Preaching

Of Latin prædicere , “to say in front of” .

Action to preach
Another name of the Homélie in Protestantism

To note that the double direction of the Latin Préfixe præ- makes that the same root prædicere also gave in French the verb to predict , meaning “to say before (or: in advance)” .

Preaching, in the Protestant religion particularly, is the other name of the Homélie.

Historically, in the Protestant Reform, the use of the term preaching corresponded to a double utility:

to outdistance Catholicism, as well as traditional Sermon S of the catholic priests - was aimed in particular the causes of dissension between Protestantism and Catholicism;
to approach to the Language and the biblical tradition which conceive only the action to preach, without the " being instituted; Sermon " as a regulated and weekly practice.

In a vision probably influenced by the Méthodisme, preaching wants to be to be a bringing together of the biblical model as presented in the book of the Acts of the Apostles: it consists mainly of a presentation of the biblical Writings and, from this one, a Leçon on a particular subject. It follows without any doubt the design néotestamentaire of the apostolate , according to which certain converts see themselves conferred by God, by the action of the Saint Spirit, the gifts necessary to preach the Évangile (see in particular the letter (or epistle) of Paul in Éphésiens, 4:11, and passages similar), in a declared dynamics of preaching with all (include/understand " the whole of the terre" - Matth. 28:19). This design of the apostolate enracine in the aiming of the Gospel according to which the evangelization consists in obeying the Grande Commission (Gospel according to Matthieu, 28:19), in other words with the fact that the Christ sent her disciples to make other disciples, simply by preaching the Good news of the " or Kingdom of heaven (; Reign of God " ; thus the Christian Gospel describes itself) by the conviction, the humility and the simplicity of heart (see Matthieu 10:7 - 14).

To believe the writings of New Testament of them, the form which preaching takes can change according to the type of apostolate and the place where he is preached. The action to preach is, comparably, completely independent of the day of the week, even of the moment of the day. He should be added to it that New Testament does not require of the preacher that it is devoted; in other words - and Protestantism took it again on its account -, any Christian (man or woman, laic religious or religious " professionnel") could a priori engage in preaching. One sees here some biblical bases of preaching such as sight in Protestantism, marking an unquestionable separation of with Roman Catholicism.

The insistence of Protestantism on the knowledge of the biblical Writings often encouraged the evangelists and the pastors to promote the Alphabétisation.

The preachers (devoting their principal activity to preaching) are often seen in the world protesting like people dedicated and very committed in their life of Foi. In the areas which knew Christianity by the evangelization of style methodist or - more largely - evangelic, the preachers, almost always of the laic itinerant or with load of a local community, are people very considered.

See too

External bond

preaching with the Middle Ages
rev. K. Allen

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