Abstract
The professor of practical theology, Josef Smolík (1922-2009), whose hundredth anniversary of birth was in March of this year, concluded his textbook on homiletics with the remark that until the arrival of the Kingdom of Heaven we will seek means of conveying the Gospel to our contemporaries. The present article points out several contemporary homiletic questions.
It focuses, for instance, on the views of Manfred Josuttis, Christian Möller, Isolde Karle, Albrecht Grözinger, Helmut Schwier, Birgit Weyel, Wilhelm Gräb, Hans-Günter Heimbrock, etc., on the power of God, on the role of the pastor as a witness, on the reflection of the listener and his world, and also on the place of the sermon in a church service. The article is divided into five sub-chapters: sermon, listener, pastor, Bible, church service.
Special focus is given to topics in material homiletics.