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Contemporary homiletics has traditionally understood preaching as the proclamation of the Word of God. In actual scholarship, however, preaching has often been explained primarily as an act of communication. Such an approach is limited in its ability to account for how preaching becomes a Word-event that generates repentance and faith and forms the community of believers. Accordingly, this study seeks to understand preaching as an event and to investigate how the sermons recorded in Scripture are actualized as living preaching events within the contemporary community of faith. To accomplish this purpose, the study employs philosophical hermeneutics, theology of the Word, and speech-act theory as its primary theoretical frameworks. First, the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur are examined in order to explore the event-character of texts and the manner in which texts open new worlds of meaning before readers and communities. Second, the theology of Karl Barth and Gerhard Ebeling is analyzed to demonstrate that the Word of God occurs as an event of divine revelation. Third, John L. Austin's speech-act theory is utilized to explain preaching not merely as a descriptive utterance but as a performative act that effects concrete transformation in the lives of hearers. On the basis of these theoretical discussions, the study investigates the sermons of Moses in Deuteronomy and Peter in Acts 2 as biblical paradigms of the preaching event. These texts demonstrate how redemptive events preserved in Scripture become actualized through proclamation, leading to covenant renewal, conversion, and communal formation. The findings indicate that preaching is not limited to explaining or representing past events. Rather, it constitutes a Word-event in which the redemptive reality preserved within the biblical text becomes effective again within the present community through interpretation and proclamation. On this basis, the study formulates a dual structure of preaching consisting of the ‘recorded sermon’ and the ‘occurring sermon’. The recorded sermon refers to the normative witness preserved in Scripture, whereas the occurring sermon denotes the event in which that witness is realized as the living Word of God within the contemporary community through the preacher’s interpretation and proclamation. Within this process, the preacher functions as a mediator of the event, proclamation performs the actualization of the Word, and the Holy Spirit consummates the event by bringing about repentance and faith. Consequently, the preaching event emerges through the integrated interaction of the biblical witness, interpretation, proclamation, the work of the Holy Spirit, and the response of the community. This study redefines preaching not merely as an act of transmission but as a Word-event that occurs through the actualization of the recorded sermon. Furthermore, by integrating hermeneutical, performative, and pneumatological dimensions into a unified account of the preaching event, it expands contemporary homiletical understandings of eventfulness and offers a more refined theological explanation of how the Word of God becomes active and effective within the present community through preaching.

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I. Introduction
II. Theoretical Foundations of the Preaching Event
1. A Hermeneutical Understanding of Event
2. A Theological Understanding of Event
3. A Speech-Act Understanding of Event
4. Theoretical Integration of the Preaching Event
III. The Biblical Archetype of the Preaching Event
1. Is Scripture a Record of Preaching or a Witness to Event?
2. Deuteronomy: The Preaching Event that Forms a Covenant Community
3. Acts 2: The Preaching Event that Forms the Church
IV. The Structure of the Actualization of the Word-Event
1. The Role of the Preacher in the Actualization of the Word-Event
2. Performative Proclamation for the Actualization of the Word-Event
3. The Consummation of the Preaching Event through the Holy Spirit
V. Conclusion
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• Ok, Kyeong-Gon [ Korea Baptist Theological University ]

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• 간행물명

  신학과 실천 [Theology and Praxis]

• 간기

  연5회

• pISSN

  1229-7917

• 수록기간

  1997~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 230 DDC 230