
Preaching on Social Suffering
Formulating a Homiletical Theology for the Contemporary Korean Context
Jeremy Kangsan Kim(Author)
Pickwick Publications (Publisher)
Published on 1. March 2023
Book
Hardback
244 pages
978-1-6667-4314-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this book, Jeremy Kim criticizes current Korean and Asian American homiletical strategies for their lack of a theological point of view on social suffering. He argues that preachers must develop an alternative theological-homiletical viewpoint on social suffering, one that has pastoral and prophetic approaches. These two approaches offer people a refuge and a voice, not only in the church community but also in the larger social community. Thus, the author suggests that preachers adopt the biblical lament, highlighting its dual tasks of compassion (the pastoral dimension) and resistance (the prophetic dimension). The author, who is a non-Western Asian American preacher, also incorporates East Asian philosophical and hermeneutical research on ren, a positive element of Confucianism, into his argument. He applies this core concept of Confucianism to the preacher's homiletical strategy toward social suffering. Thus, the author proposes that Korean preachers should recover ren, which contains sincere compassion for others as well as a voice of resistance that reveals unjust social structures as the cause of social suffering and expresses both within Uri (we), the community.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
510 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6667-4314-2 (9781666743142)
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Preaching on Social Suffering
Formulating a Homiletical Theology for the Contemporary Korean Context
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Jeremy Kangsan Kim received a PhD degree in practical theology (homiletics) at the University of Aberdeen. His academic interests center on homiletical theology based on Western/East Asian philosophy and hermeneutics, sociology, and psychology, especially in the socio-political and socio-cultural issues in both North American and Korean context, hoping to reshape contemporary Asian-American and Korean preaching.