Examining Yonggi Cho’s Success as a Preacher from the New Paradigm of Spirituality & Religion

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Pastor Cho’s sermons and his delivery style may not impress students of homiletics but his effectiveness as a preacher is undoubted. Even though his theology has been severely criticized, countless people continue to be blessed by his sermons delivered through various media. Pastor Cho’s sermons are effective because of its engaged, contextual, holisticand integrative pneumatic Spirituality. An attempt at a philosophicalcritique (rather than a technical critique) of Pastor Cho’s sermons under the spirituality/religion paradigm suggests that the time has come for Christian theology and missiology to have a new paradigm with a new language to describe and distinguish itself, as well as to interface with the world today. The safe path of interfacing with the world through the “nonspiritual” categories of the worldview/culture paradigm is restrictive. In recent times, especially in the West, the idea of spirituality has been eroding the influence of religion. Taking on the larger spirituality/religionparadigm will offer the Church a new set of language to interface with the world. In fact, it will even open doors for interreligious dialogues. This is perhaps the reason why Sunbogeum Spirituality has been able to replace traditional Korean shamanistic spirituality to meet the needs of the Korean people.

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