2020, Vol., No.48

The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.58

pISSN : 1229-8387 / eISSN : 2713-749X
https://journal.kci.go.kr/csethics

The COVID-19 pandemic has paralyzed many functions of society with its rapid infectious and fatal symptoms. In the absence of vaccines and treatments, so- cial distancing and none-face-to-face contact became important personal quarantine. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, on-site worship and lunch fellowship are banned or limited in the church. The Korean church is facing a crisis that it has never been experienced. In this situation the sustainability of church is emerging from the reverse thinking. In a non-contact state due to social distancing, the church performs the online worship service instead of on-site worship and shares the fellowship through video calls to keep the communality of being one body of Christ. This paper will examine that the expansion of online worship and fellow- ship in a virtual space contribute to restore the essence of the church and the communality as the basis for church sustainability in the post COVID-19 pan- demic era. In addition the governance composed of pastors and lay members should not fall into pursue church growth and religiousity, but try to realize that the church is the community of life, and to establish a new relationship with the society outside the church with high morality. This paper aims to clarify that the sustainability of the Korean churchfacing the post COVID-19 era can be achieved in a cooperative relationship with a society based on communality through the organic worship and fellowship.

This study aims to respond to the rapid skepticism of globalization, as a joint work between Christian ethics and missiology to seek an appropriate alternative to the missional situation in crisis, and an ethical task to seek the possibility of coexisting globalization and localization under this crisis of Covid-19. For the re- covery of ecology-centered thinking, the mutual relationship between humanity and ecology is suggested, and it is proposed that globalization can be used as an opportunity to restore the values and ethics of production and consumption. In addition, under the circumstances of rapid shrinkage of Christian missions, multi- cultural missions are suggested as a worthy alternative in the Korean society, which is still subject to discussion as vague concepts. For this purpose, the theo- ry of the cultural quotient (CQ), which makes it possible to raise intelligence of multiculturalism of Korean people, is proposed as a developmental tool. In other words, to reorient the values and directions of multicultural missions, the tool can offer systemic understanding and effective applications to a multicultural society. The Covid-19 pandemic situation should not be regarded as a disaster from God, but as an opportunity for reflecting and reorienting the direction of life caused by human unethical life and desire.

This study analyzes the citizenship of Korean Protestant Christianity using the methodology of big-data and guides the social ethical direction of Korean Protestantism of the present day. First, this study examines the basic values of citizenship in terms of citizenship education while looking at its development in Western society. Accordingly, this study argues how religion (Christianity) reveals citizenship related to the concept of public rationality and civil religion. On the other hand, this research examines the fundamentalist trends of Korean Protestantism to see why it failed to develop such civility in a healthy manner by focusing on big data trends on the levels of civility that Korean Protestantism is currently displaying in Korean society. This analysis demonstrates that Korean Protestantism is shown to be at a negative level in citizenship in certain areas in the Korean society. In order to overcome this phenomenon, this research sug- gests a social ethics alternative, which calls for the development of virtue in terms of public rationality for the passive appearance of religion, and for the realization of community virtues in order to lead a life of hospitality for peace on an active level.