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English
Adjective
kerygmatic (not comparable)
- Relating to the kerygmata.
2000, Anne Marie Mongoven, The Prophetic Spirit of Catechesis: How We Share the Fire in Our Hearts:An indefatigable Jesuit named Johannes Hofinger set out to proclaim the benefits of Jungmann's kerygmatic catechesis to the world.
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 Nineteenth-century Series), London; New York, N.Y.: Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 144:[…] 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 hemistych of this remarkably balanced thirteener – "and chaunt melodiously" – recalls how it is on the breath of enamored air and song that all the vigorously launched members and voices of this scene are sustaining their courses.
- Presumptuous.