Trials

Trials the name given in ecclesiastical diction to those discourses delivered before the presbytery by students who have finished their course, and are seeking to be licensed to preach. These discourses are a sermon, a lecture, a homily, an exegesis or exercise with additions, and a thesis. There are also examinations on systematic theology and practical piety, on Church history, and on the Greek and Hebrew Scriptures.

⇒Bible concordance for TRIAL.

⇒Definition of trial

⇒See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.