Union with God Through a Transformative Homiletics

"Dr. Woori Han, engaging his beloved Korean Pentecostal ministry of preaching, provides a contemporary and much needed dialogue between this rich faith tradition, contemporary hermeneutics exemplified by Paul Ricouer's approach to an existential reading of a text, and the Roman Catholic practice of lectio divina, as explored in the homilies of the Cistercian mystic and theologian, Bernard of Clairvaux. The freshness of this wholistic approach suggests the possibility of a transformative reading of the Word of God in a way that broadens the revelatory grace at work in evangelical preaching. Union with God Thorough a Transformative Homiletic is an important ecumenical contribution to the field of homiletics, honoring both the biblical witness and those gathered to hear the Word of God as the testimony of their own lives. In such a dialogic preaching event, both preacher and assembly experience God's Word as truly 'fulfilled in their hearing' (Lk. 421)." -Paul A. Janowiak SJ, Associate Professor of Liturgical and Sacramental Theology, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara; Author of The Holy Preaching: The Sacramentality of the Word in the Liturgical Assembly