Page 10 - A Dissertation for Doctor of Philosophy

Preaching in the Stage of Explosion (1960s-1980s)................................................................. 23

Preaching in the Stage of Stagnation (1990s – 2002)............................................................... 25

The Korean Church and Contemporary Socio-Cultural Context.................................................. 27

An Understanding of Culture.................................................................................................... 27

Socio-Cultural Context of the Contemporary Korean Church ..................................................... 29

The Spirit of Capitalism............................................................................................................ 30

Industrialization in Korea ..................................................................................................... 30

Urbanization in Korea........................................................................................................... 31

Materialism in Korea ............................................................................................................ 33

Spirit of Cultural Nationalism................................................................................................... 34

Spirit of Postmodernism ........................................................................................................... 36

Postmodernism and Sinsedae Culture................................................................................... 37

The Wide Generation Gap in Korea ..................................................................................... 39

Mixture of Values and Customs ........................................................................................... 40

The Need for Renewal in the Methodology of Preaching ............................................................ 42

Renewal of Philosophy of Preaching........................................................................................ 42

Conservative Moralistic Preaching....................................................................................... 43

Pragmatic Life-Situational Preaching................................................................................... 46

Syncretistic Pentecostal Preaching ....................................................................................... 48

The Renewal in Rhetorical Methods of Preaching ................................................................... 52

The Problem of the Authoritarianism of the Pulpit .............................................................. 52

The Problem of Distance between Pulpit and Pew............................................................... 54
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