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A Study for the Korean Church’s Practical Ways of Faith in the Light of the Third Generation Liberation Theology based on Dr. Jung Mo Sung

Park, Do-Woong 1

1배화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

This research studies the theology of Dr. Jung Mo Sung, a professor of Religion and Culture at the Methodist University of Sao Paulo, concentrating on his ethico-religious critique of the international capitalist systems. According to his insight against current global ideology, neo-liberalism, the modern altar of the ‘global market god’, is invisible, but still demands human sacrifices in the name of ‘objective’ desires. In this treat, first, this research figures out what the first generation liberation theology has done by Gustavo Gutierrez and the second generation by Leonardo Boff. This study finds some genealogical interconnectedness between the first and second generation liberation theology and Dr. Sung’s third generation liberation theology. Dr. Sung, Gutierrez and Boff have accomplished great fruit in terms of spiritual practices of the Christian communities. The liberation theology in Latin America and its discussions are still valid for the people in Asia and other areas those who are “the oppressed and maimed and blind and lame” by the political and economic powers. Likewise, the Korean church also needs to look for various ways of faith practice with true spirituality of liberation.

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