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kerygmatic

kerygmatic adjective: relating to the kerygmata.

Adjective

kerygmatic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the kerygmata.
    • An indefatigable Jesuit named Johannes Hofinger set out to proclaim the benefits of Jungmann's kerygmatic catechesis to the world.2000, Anne Marie Mongoven, The Prophetic Spirit of Catechesis: How We Share the Fire in Our Hearts
    • […] I would first agree with [Earl] Wasserman that the last line ["[shapes] Which walk upon the sea, and chaunt melodiously"] alludes to Jesus walking on water, the point of the allusion being the kerygmatic expression of a form of transcendence, which is more or less specified by the way the other...2011, Edward T. Duffy, “Recounting Reverses, Recovering the Initiative: Act II of Prometheus Unbound”, in The Constitution of Shelley’s Poetry: The Argument of Language in Prometheus Unbound (Anthem...
  2. Presumptuous.

Words formed from kerygmatic

Questions about kerygmatic

What does kerygmatic mean?
Kerygmatic means relating to the kerygmata.
What part of speech is kerygmatic?
Kerygmatic is an adjective.

Words near kerygmatic in the dictionary

  1. Kerwood
  2. Kerwoods
  3. kerygma
  4. kerygmas
  5. kerygmata
  6. kerygmatic
  7. kerygmatically
  8. kerygmatist
  9. kerygmatists
  10. kerykeia
  11. kerykeion

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