2022, Vol., No.52

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

In the context of growing interest in social spirituality, such as concern on empathy and hospitality, this article pursues the ethics of disciple in civil society by focusing on Paul’s Christian ethics. This article reinterprets Pauline discipleship from the perspective of virtue ethics while riding on the ‘Paul Renaissance’, which is actively developing centering on the humanities and the New Testament studies. For Paul, discipleship is a community-based ethics which involves the social spirituality of public responsibility, communication, empathy, and hospitality. Korean Christianity should overcome the privatization of faith and realize the discipleship of civil society by paying attention to the social spirituality shown in Paul.

This paper aims to build theology as a semantic system of badal based on the usage of badal in the Old Testament and scrutinize its implications for social ethics. To this end, this researcher made use of the perspective of literary criticism as synchronic approach. In addition, in order to construct the theology of badal, this study referred to the principles of biblical interpretation suggested by L. Berkhof: grammatical, historical, and theological interpretation. The social ethical problems in badal's meaning system are explained by the ethical transformation and the ideological distortion of holiness, the holiness of time and space contained in the Sabbath, and the inclusive and exclusive attitude of faith communities toward foreigners. The boundary setting by badal is variable, depending on historical situations and Zeitgeist, and is associated with the problem of justice.

The researcher set out to reorganize the Four-Fold Gospel as theological doc- trines and ideas in ethics. For this purpose, this paper explored ways to discuss each idea of the Four-Fold Gospel, including “regeneration,” “holiness,” “divine healing,” and “second coming” within the category of philosophical ethics as the priority is to find contact points between the Four-Fold Gospel and the philo- sophical domain to expand and reproduce the discourse of the Four-Fold Gospel. This study examines global value ethics as approximate values that could reach universal ethics. It encompasses both the aspects of recovery(getting bet- ter) as getting better from a destroyed body and positive thinking(better than) as keeping and maintaining a healthier body. The event of the second coming is or- ganized with the value of eternal “enjoyment” to all people within Christ. Such enjoyment can be fulfilled by the subordinate values of existential freedom from sins and cosmic justice from judgments.