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A Reformed Theological Proposal for the Recovery of Economy of Care

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2014, (29), pp.193-222
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

김호연 1

1서울목양교회

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ABSTRACT

Modernity has overestimated subjectivity and rationality of human beings. By doing so, it has forgotten God in its memories and lost its faith in God. It entails the loss of the sense of integrity and responsibility before God, which has been an important Christian ethical value for the divine economy, the economy of care in another word. The modern political economy has concentrated on this visible and material world so that it has neglected the qualitative value of life. These are the deserved consequences of modernity resulting in the contemporary political economic problems. How have these consequences been developed? What are their main problems in the Christian ethical sense? What serves the Christian theology have to act for the recovery of economy of care as the good economy in God's created order? In this essay, I will briefly trace the course of modernity's losing the Christian ethical values with its metastasis to modern political economy. And so, I will consummate the five implications for the recovery of economy derived from the recent ethical, sociological, and theological discussions. Lastly, I will present a Reformed theological proposal for the recovery of an economy as an outcome of these researches. I hope that this study will contribute to the recovery of a current economy by rehabilitating the lost values of modernity, which have been passed on through the Christian faith. They are the faith in God, the sense of integrity and responsibility before God, and the qualitative value of life. We will retrieve the current economy with these values, which lead to the ethics of integrity and responsibility of life before the presence of God and the recognition of the eschatological dimension of economic life with the divine capitals that the church will develop and interpret for the socioeconomic recovery in our age.

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