kerygman.

1889 Dublin Rev. Apr. 315 My account of the Kerygma and the Rule of Faith.

1894 N. Buchanan tr. A. von Harnack Hist. Dogma I. iv. 255 (note) The traditional complex of the Christian Kerygma.

1899 J. Stalker Christol. of Jesus i. 24 [The words of Jesus] are kerygma, not dogma; nature, not science.

1936 C. H. Dodd Apostolic Preaching i. 6 For the early Church..to preach the Gospel was by no means the same thing as to deliver moral instruction or exhortation... It was by kerygma, says Paul, not by didaché, that it pleased God to save men.

1949 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 2 316 And the miracle of the kerygma is just this that through it the once and for all event in Jesus Christ becomes event all over again in the faith of the hearer.

1953 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 6 314 The essential difference from Christianity, however, lies in the place occupied by such speculations about the kosmos, its beginnings and end, its hierarchies and denizens, in the respective kerygmata.

1955 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 8 158 Usage in direct speech may also be due to the editor, but the ruling presumption is against that, especially in the kerygmata.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 May p. vii/1 And what he writes, without a word of justification, about the unity of the mind of the apostles with that of Christ, and of the apostolic kerygma with the activity of Christ, could be used by the Pope himself and welcomed by him as coming from a Protestant source.

1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Aug. 628/2 It is also true that historical facts become objects of religious faith only when they belong to salvation-history and are part of the kerygma, the proclamation of the gospel, which presents them as sources and types of the redemption offered to mankind.

1970 West & Francis Scandal in Assembly xxviii. 151 Without the Kerygma, the didache reduces itself to a system of ethics as unstable as the customs of men.

1929 Church Times 18 Jan. 82/1 Our ministry..before all else..is ‘kerygmatic’, the proclamation of a Kingdom and a King.

1955 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 8 346 The present Hexateuch represents the elaboration and the heaping up of traditions around the simple kerygmatic theme, the chief premonarchial elements of which can be discerned in old confessions.

1969 E. Simons in Sacramentum Mundi: Encycl. Theol. III. 246/1 This dialectic of mediation..which may be termed dialogal, is a kerygmatic event.

1949 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 2 88 They hold that the Scriptures of the New Testament witness to Jesus Christ Himself kerygmatically, that is in such a way that He Himself, by the power of His Spirit, speaks to men through them.

1970 J. Donceel tr. K. Rahner Trinity ii. 57 Some new word..may be more precisely and easily understood, hence kerygmatically more useful than the word ‘person’.