Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Scope, nature, and methodologies -- Narrative, Minjung theology, and preaching -- Minjung and Han : terminologies and context -- Narrative, Minjung theology, and preaching -- Chunhyangjun and Korean preaching -- Nature and development of Chunhyangjun -- The nature of Chunhyangjun -- Origin and sources -- Debates on orality and literacy -- Implication for Korean preaching -- Aristotelian understanding of the plot -- Plot in Chunhyangjun -- Love and marriage -- Separation -- Imprisonment and higher conflict -- Denouement : reunion and resolution -- Han and catharsis in Chunhyangjun -- Other devices of narrative -- Chunhyangjun and Christian preaching -- Theories of narrative preaching -- Fred Craddock : inductive preaching -- Charles Rice : preaching as storytelling -- Eugene Lowry : preaching as narrative plot -- Upsetting the equilibrium -- Analyzing the discrepancy -- Disclosing the clue to resolution -- Experiencing the Gospel -- Anticipating the consequences -- Henry Mitchell : preaching as celebration -- Challenges and relevance for Korean preaching -- Experience versus the Gospel -- Narrative versus non-narrative -- Open-ended sermon and other cultures -- Authority and other cultures -- Toward a Korean narrative preaching theory -- A proposal for Korean narrative preaching.

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