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Hauerwas and Campbell on Ethical Preaching for ‘Being Church’

Moon, Si Young 1

1남서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on the preaching as a fundamentals of church in ecclesial ethics of Hauerwas and the concept of ethical preaching in Charles L. Campbell who influenced deeply from the ethics of Hauerwas. Preceding studies on combination of preaching with ethics by theologian of homiletics have a tendency to relate the ethical preaching with the research ethics of preachers. Though it is an unsatisfactory part to regard ethics of preachers as the problem of ‘cheating act’, it is a meaningful step to activate meeting of sermon and ethics. It is necessary to observe the ethics of preachers and seek the ethical preaching. In this context, it is worth noting that Hauerwas and Campbell suggest the ethical preaching for building up the church. For Hauerwas, ethical preaching for being church connected with the pastor’s ethical responsibility. Hauerwas emphasizes that pastors have to build up Christian as Christian based on Jesus narrative. Campbell receives the issue of being church and expresses it more positively. Campbell considers the combination of ethics and preaching as connected with being church. According to Campbell, preaching is an ethical practice for building up church based on Jesus narrative. Hauerwas and Campbell remind us of the importance of ethical maturity of Korean church which tend to cling to blessing preaching and prosperity theology.

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