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Village Community Movement and Village Church

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2013, (27), pp.197-236
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

Hye-Ryung Kim 1

1이화여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

From the perspective of Christian ethics, the village community movement could be said as a very significant challenge despite it’s secularity. The first reason is that the movement as an alternative against the global capitalism tries to build a grassroots democracy and the social economy. Secondly, it has ethical values such as “mutual caring and sharing for the neighborhood” and “a simple life for the every life” based on the relation of human and human, and of human and nature. Hence, this study will start from a recherche in the political and economic background and the importance of the korean village community social movement, and reveal the ethical importance from the perspective of the ethics of hope by J. Molttman. This study, however, aims also to find out the reasons why the Korean Church unlike the German Church had to be excluded from the village community movement by the korean civil society in spite of the intersection between the ethics of solidarity in the village community movement and the ethics of love in the Church. For the conclusion, it is for the resurrection of the Village Church that this study does not only stress to take a role for the responsibility for the social welfare in the local community, but also for the ministry of Kerygma to proclaim the space and the time of the Holiness in the world of the Profane. This holy work of the Village Church will make the human life to build the stability and the depth of his being without being obsessed with the daily Profane.

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