Book Review: Preaching to Second Generation Korean Americans: Towards a Possible Selves Contextual Homiletic

Authors

Rebecca S. Jeong, George Fox UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

2014

Abstract

Matthew D. Kim in his Preaching to Second Generation Korean Americans provides a “possible selves contextual homiletic” for second generation Korean Americans who encounter unique bicultural and liminal experiences as an ethnic minority in American society. From a viewpoint of homiletic and practical theology, the intent of the book is “to create a contextual homiletical approach that facilitates Korean American preachers’ exegesis of their second generation Korean American congregant’s lived experiences and simultaneously encourage imaginative and innovative processes for cultivating new possible selves (3).” Put simply, his contextual preaching seeks to formulate the congregant’s positive future self-perception toward a radical Christian existence beyond their status of cultural chaos and liminality (208).

Comments

Originally published in Asian American Theological Forum, September 2014.

https://aatfweb.org/2014/09/06/preaching-to-second-generation-korean-americans-towards-a-possible-selves-contextual-homiletic/

Recommended Citation

Jeong, Rebecca S., "Book Review: Preaching to Second Generation Korean Americans: Towards a Possible Selves Contextual Homiletic" (2014). Faculty Publications - Portland Seminary. 130.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/gfes/130