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Study on Changes in Christians’ Understanding of Violence and Principles for Christianly Response

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2020, (48), pp.191-216
  • DOI : 10.21050/CSE.2020.48.07
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : November 1, 2020
  • Accepted : December 18, 2020
  • Published : December 31, 2020

Lee, bong-seok 1

1감리교신학대학교

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ABSTRACT

As the ethics of Christianity undergoes big changes from pacifism to realism in responding to violence, the just use of violence is said to be “necessity” for maintaining the order of the world. This paper aims to track causes for changes in Christians’ understanding of violence. To this end, first, this paper identifies the causes that differences in epistemological understanding of “correctness” between divine law and human justice may cause differences in coping with violence. Second, it confirms through the gospels according to Matthew and Luke that differences in historical horizon between the communities may cause differences in dealing with violence. Lastly, this paper historically examines changes that oc- curred in Christianity concerning its response to violence. Thus, the paper dis- cusses the unrestrained justice of God and presents how to build “synthetic ethics” that addresses the issue of violence without siding with one side.

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