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The Public Theological Basis of H. Richard Niebuhr’s Theology and Ethics

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2016, (34), pp.11-39
  • DOI : 10.21050/CSE.34.01
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

Hee-Soo Kim 1

1한신대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This research concentrates on H. Richard Niebuhr’s theology and ethics from a perspective of public theology, as this article does not only try to find out arguments on the identity, public nature, and social responsibility of Christian church, but it also to make a contribution to the progression of public theological discourses in Korea for the recovery of Korean Protestant Church’s consciousness of public nature and social responsibility. Korean Protestant churches have to recover the sense of public nature and social responsibility in order to reform the church crisis as well as to establish justice and peace in Korean society. For this, this article first introduces the core issues of public theology offered by Dirk J. Smit, Reinhold Niebuhr, Max L. Stackhouse, and Stanley Hauerwas. Besides, this article deals with the public theological basis of H. Richard Niebuhr’s theology and ethics. Lastly, depending on these studies, this article offers theological and ethical guidelines for the recovery of the consciousness of public nature and social responsibility.

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