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Students engage in a homiletically guided and theologically reflective preaching experience.

"Preaching means letting God have his say in such a way that something can change." (Rolf Zerfass). This statement by a Catholic 'old master' of homiletics (= teaching of preaching) shows that it is about more than mere pulpit talk. For whoever preaches well will also do good theology - at the university as well as at the place of work: in the parish, in the school or elsewhere. Preaching is theology on the ground of one's own existence - with one's own language and at the height of one's own time. Like theology, it is a spiritual adventure that leads into the creative differences between Scripture and the present. From this inspiring tension, it seeks to weave together the great narratives of the Bible and the small stories of everyday life: "We must let the Word of God speak today." (M.-Dominique Chenu).

Plenary phases as well as tutorially accompanied small groups; trial sermon with homiletic preparation and evaluation.

Collaboration, test preaching, seminar paper

Rolf Zerfaß, Grundkurs Predigt (Bde. 1/2), Düsseldorf 1987/1992.

Further literature is mentioned in the seminar.

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There is also the possibility to accompany a homiletic small group as a tutor after the seminar and to deepen what has been discovered in this way.