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Abstract

In this article, efforts were made to introduce a Protestant political sermon of Germany for the 21st century in an attempt to explore a political sermon that is suitable to Korean situation with an emphasis on research outcome of Prof. Helmut Schwier and Director Kathrin Oxen of the Protestant Research Institute of Sermon. A prerequisite of political sermon is to comprehend essential aspects of this complex social structure and ambiguous ethical problems accompanied by it objectively. Y generation of Germany wants a secret revolution (heimliche Revolutionöre) rather than a gigantic political revolution. New political sermon of Germany has a non-political color. But this is a kind of sermon that can reveal the ‘reality’ constituting the core of the problem as well as resisting against it. Helmut Schwier emphasizes that a political sermon should carry gospel messages that serve as a concrete witness to the people living today as to the meaning of life instead of using an existing type of sermon or an oppressive method. And this sermon should be imbued with meaning, not only within the church but also in social communities, using concrete historical examples that can encourage congregation to expect necessary social innovations. The most important thing in a sermon that deals with a social subject is to deliver the kind of social values that should be pursued by our society. Helmut Schwier emphasizes that a political sermon should be a ‘process that pursues an answer.’ For a Korean preacher to deliver a political sermon, a thorough understanding of the Whole Gospel is essential more than anything else. And for the purpose, let us consider generation groups of Korea by dividing them into four different groups: Liberation generation and the Korean War generation, 86 generation, and 880,000 won generation. As the political difference is quite marked like this, to deliver a political sermon within the church is quite difficult. Accordingly, before delivering a political sermon, Korean preachers should speak out absolute values first that should be pursued by our society. Theological values that Korean Church can speak of are ‘Table Community of Jesus’ and ‘Theology of the Cross’ as advocated by Gerd Theißen. And the entity or reality that should be resisted by political sermon of Korea is the elite cartel as, in Korean society, there still exist economic classes.