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A Study on a Methology of Ecumenical Economic Ethics

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2010, (19), pp.205-235
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

Choi, Kyung-Suk 1

1강남대학교

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ABSTRACT

The ecumenical movement plays a crucial role in social ethical discourse. The World Council of Churches’s (WCC) 10th assembly will take place in Busan in 2013. With this in mind, it is significant to reconstruct early history of the modern ecumenical movement. In the beginning of the movement, people kept an eye on economical problems. The so-called neo-liberal globalization which is the main cause of many economic problems arising in today’s world is progressing so rapidly. Rebuilding the early ecumenical movement might lead to the solution to today’s economical problems. In this study, I will deal with a methodology of Christian economic ethics in the early 20th century ecumenical movement. I will discuss the period beginning with the ‘First Life and Work Conference’ in Stockholm in 1925 until the ‘Second Life and Work Conference’ in Oxford in 1937. I will conclude with the foundation of WCC and the corresponding Conference in Amsterdam in 1948. The summary will use a two-prong method: Firstly, I will restructure each conference and will emphasize the ecumenical movement in the context of ‘Life and Work’. Finally, I will discuss the development of ecumenical economic ethics. Basic principles of ecumenical economics that are experienced in human existence were set up at the Stockholm conference: love, brotherhood and justice. A continuation committee was organized to prepare for the Oxford conference. In the time between conferences, the interdisciplinary dialogues regarding theology, economics, and social science played a crucial role. Dealing with the Oxford conference, I will reveal the first criterion for the ecumenical economic ethics; a clear refusal of the extreme egoistic liberalistic economic system and the totalitarian communitarian economic system. Dealing with the WCC’s 1st assembly in Amsterdam, I will address the second criterion: the vision of a ‘Responsible Society’.

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