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웹2.0의 시민사회와 소통하기 위한 교회의 윤리적 과제

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2009, (18), pp.199-227
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

Moon, Si Young 1

1남서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is to propose church’s ethical tasks for communication with civil society of ‘Web2.0’. But, this paper does not belong to web-technology but a paper of Christian social ethics. Especially, there are some requests from civil or liberal society for church’s change and participation to civil movement in Korea. Some people rebuke church as a conservative and morally-corrupted group, others blame church as a non-communicative group with civil values of Web2.0 which pursuing bi-directional communications. In this context, the paper studies reasons of civil blames for church as moral problems and proposes some ethical tasks of church’s communicative possibility in Web2.0 era. The focuses are as follows; (1) Enhancement of church’s publicness in civil society. This is from view of ‘Public Theology’, especially Max L. Stackhouse. Faith is not of privatization but of public concerns. Church must concern with global and civil issues because God rule whole society including church and civil society. (2) Recovering of gospel identity which connected with Stanley Hauerwas’ view of ‘Ecclasial Ethics’. By letting church be the church through doing accord to Jesus narrative, Christians must become an excellent alternatives to the world which infected violence and war. These two tasks are moral conditions which requested for communication with civil value or liberal society. On these bases, (3) Christian communication with civil society of Web2.0. Church have to try again and again to apologize with enthusiasm for gospel truth to civil society. For this purpose, there would be effective ways as like ‘office of public relations’, ‘media study’, and ‘opinion leadership’, etc. In conclusion, church in civil society of Web2.0 must pursue to be a good and servant leader in morality.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.