다원주의 시대의 기독교윤리 방향

• 영문명: Christian Ethics in the Age of Pluralism
• 발행기관: 개혁신학회
• 저자명: 장성민(Jang, Sung-Min)
• 간행물 정보: 『개혁논총』제12권, 151~174쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 종교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.12.30

영문 초록

The purpose of this paper is to explore towards which Christian ethics should be directed in modern times characterized by pluralism. The pluralism has permeated into the contemporary society and its culture, which has been one of threatening currents with which Christianity is confronted. The critical impacts made by the ism are far-reaching to the extent which they even encompass the area of ethics as well as religion (i.e., the emergence of religious pluralism). We, consequently, live in ‘the age the foundations are destroyed' which means traditional norms and sense of value are deconstructed. Given this, there is a need to address postmodernism featured by pluralism in the light of ethical viewpoint. Postmodernism is the culture where metanarrative is disintegrated and transcendental or universal norms and values are not adopted: moral universalism is not accepted in the postmodernism. Such a perspective even includes denying minimal foundations required to maintain a community, which results in the emergence of pluralism and in turn nihilism. This phenomenon, therefore, lends itself to the loss of community. That accounts for the failure of ethics in modern society. Also, there is a need to deal with how to define pluralism itself. As for this matter, normative plurality should be distinguished from descriptive one, with the former leading to ethical problems while the latter not. This distinction might be conducive to establish Christian ethics in the age of pluralism. It can be asserted that Christian ethics should be God-based and devotion and love-oriented rather than Constantinian Christianity-like. That is, it should be of divine command morality which stems from divine credentials.

목차

1 들어가는 말

2 다원주의적 상황 이해

3 다원주의 의미 규정

4 기독교 윤리의 방향

5 맺음말

키워드

Pluralism Value Postmodernism Christian Ethics Moral Norms