Definition of Kerugma

1. Noun. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.

Exact synonyms: Kerygma
Generic synonyms: Discourse, Preaching, Sermon

Definition of Kerugma

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of kerygma) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kerugma

kerplunks
kerpow
kerria
kerrias
kerries
kerry
kersey
kerseymere
kerseymeres
kerseys
kerslap
kerslop
kersplat
kersplosh
kertyschoo
kerugma (current term)
kerugmata
kerve
kerved
kerver
kervers
kerves
kerving
kerwallop
kerwham
kerygma
kerygmas
kerygmata
kerygmatic
kes

Literary usage of Kerugma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... Throughout Nero's Reign—Devotion for Each Other— The Strange Practice not Confined to Rome—Clement of Rome—Friend of Peter—Wrote kerugma Petrou—Sketch ..."

2. The Ghebers of Hebron: An Introduction to the Gheborim in the Lands of the by Samuel Fales Dunlap (1894)
"... Petrus and Paulus of the kerugma recommend Christianity and propose it as the higher union of the Jewish prophetism and the sublimated christianism. ..."

3. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1904)
"Harnack is not able to discover any connexion between 2 Peter and the kerugma Petri, but adds in a note : " That there is a reference to the ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1904)
"So with the kerugma of the first days. The fact in each case is, and must be treated as, objective. To take a parallel instance, we discover the ' essence ..."

5. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1901)
"... JESUS be inferred that the constant theme of the kerugma was the kingdom of God. that the kingdom was presented as a boon rather than as a demand; ..."

6. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"The first of these is from Peter enjoining secrecy in regard to the "kerugma" sent therewith. The second is from Clement of Bome after the death of Peter, ..."

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