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Preaching To Episodic Ears: Practicing A Dramaturgical Homiletic, Sunggu Yang
Preaching To Episodic Ears: Practicing A Dramaturgical Homiletic, Sunggu Yang
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
This article is a critical attempt to develop a homiletic methodology for preaching to the episodic self of the 21st century. The British philosopher Galen Strawson contends that postmodern people today do not regard themselves as living out their lives in a diachronic or narrative sense, but rather in an episodic-existential sense. This episodic-existential way of perceiving one’s life has recently posed a significant challenge to the current preaching practice that is mostly composed and delivered from the pulpit through a narrative. This article provides a considerate response to that episodic-existential challenge. Specifically, the article proposes a dramaturgical narrative form …