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Toward the end of 2015, 65.3 million people were seeking refuge or were otherwise forcibly displaced globally. This is the largest number since the recordings began around World War II. In Europe more than 1 million people arrived by sea in 2015 – more than four times as many as the previous year.1 The crisis situation stirred public debate as well as church-based initiatives trying to deal with the situation. In order to understand the interaction between public discourse and local preaching a group of homileticians from seven European countries collaborated on an empirical study of how the refugee crisis impacted preaching. In what follows we present the initial results from the Scandinavian countries.

In October 2016 homileticians from seven European countries met in Leipzig in order to reflect on political preaching in the context of the so called European ‘refugee crisis’. This article shows the background of this conference, gives a very brief overview of the perspectives from different countries, and suggests ways to continue European homiletical research on this theme.

Preaching is in transition, so is homiletics as the theory of preaching. In this article the development of homiletics in the Low Countries is explored as a case-study within the dynamics of international homiletical thought. The material for this case-study consists of the doctoral theses that have been published since the turn of the century. The amount of doctoral work in homiletics, the variety of methodological approaches and theological perspectives, provide a viable entrance to homiletics as academic discipline. It will be concluded that homiletics has developed into an international, empirically oriented, culturally sensitive, and theological diverse field. Preaching is in transition, so is homiletics. The transition, as seen through the lens of recent Dutch contributions to scholarly discourse in preaching, has three focal points: pneumatology, language, and empirical research.

Oggetto di questo articolo è la Leggenda di sant’Antonio abate conservata nella terza unità codicologica del Mscr.Dresd.Ob.6, uno tra gli otto codici del XV sec. nella lingua del sì presenti nella Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB). Avendo fornito alcune informazioni riguardanti l’intero manoscritto, ci si concentrerà sulla terza unità codicologica, descrivendone le principali caratteristiche formali e contenutistiche, collocando il testo ivi conservato nel più ampio contesto culturale della predicazione medievale in volgare. Sulla base di una rigorosa analisi del testo (analisi linguistica, ma anche analisi dei segni paragrafematici e della grafia), si tenterà di comprenderne l’uso e la provenienza. L’analisi si conclude con un paragrafo dedicato alla sintassi, rilevando come la Leggenda di sant’Antonio abate da un lato segua le norme sintattiche proprie dell’italiano antico e dall’altro sia fortemente influenzata dal modello neotestamentario e dalla sua funzione di supporto alla predicazione. Le conclusioni delle mie ricerche metteranno infine in luce il rapporto tra questo testo – con la sua punteggiatura e sintassi – e l’oralità propria del contesto omiletico.