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This paper will consider Martin Luther’s wrestling with God in a time of theological trauma and of personal anxiety, not according to E. H. Erickson’s psychoanalytic study in his Young Man Luther, but according to Dominick LaCapra’s healing-oriented historical studies into which he integrated recent developments in critical theory, such as post-structuralism and psychoanalysis. It will also describe Luther’s battle in narrative method that is become a object of attention of the historians after Lawrence Stone’s The Revival of Narrative 1979. Therefore this article intends to provide an account of how and why Luther’s struggles with the consciousness of his sinfulness came to be, of how they were going on and of how their result was come out. But it aims not only at describing Luther’s wrestling. It also hopes that Luther’ struggle can give theological and spiritual insights to fight out the crisis of the church in Korea. The theological trauma against which Luther fought is the medieval scholastic understanding of the justice of God after which God punishes the sinners. Luther felt himself to be “a sinner with an unquiet conscience” and used to try to be confessed of a crime. But he came to a crisis that centered upon the question of his fears concerning the insufficiency of his personal efforts to placate a wrathful God. His over ten years lasting persistent wrestling with this God must not exclusively fall in negative estimation. Because it was itself the healing process for Luther that drove him to discover the so-called “reformatorische Enddeckung” that made him feel “to be born anew and to enter through open gates into paradise itself.” It did not only led him to personal freedom, but also healed and reformed the Church, although it seemed to be like striking the rock with an egg and looked actually not effective. Luther's example gives us a clue to overcome the spiritual crisis of the church in Korea. Of course there are several possibilities to get over this crisis. But one of the most important means ist to repent of our own sins as a Pastor preached in the Pyongyang Great Revival 100 anniversary commemoration at Sangam World Cup Stadium in 2007. But the repentance must not be a unique event. It has to rather beat our own breast continuedly and be a long lasting persistent wrestling with God. Only such repentance can become the hopeful and effective way to heal and renew the church, which shows Luther’s life exemplarily.
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Luther, repentance, justification, LaCapra, healing-oriented historical studies, crisis of the church in Korea
