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The Issues of Religious Phenomenology and the Topics of Christian Social Ethics in the COVID-19 Era

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2021, (49), pp.73-103
  • DOI : 10.21050/CSE.2021.49.03
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : February 26, 2021
  • Accepted : April 21, 2021
  • Published : April 30, 2021

sangcheol lee 1

1한신대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This paper explores the problem of religious phenomenological approaches to COVID-19 in the first half and Christian social ethics in the second half. The reli- gious phenomenological approach is based on a survey of Korean Protestants’ perceptions during the COVID-19 era. Looking at how Protestant faith patterns changed in the wake of COVID-19, I summarized the characteristics of religious phenomenology after COVID-19 as 1) the arrival of non-religious societies, 2) the destruction of religious aura, and 3) the reconstruction of worship. The suspen- sion and disruption of worship due to COVID-19 is read as an incident that Korean society has entered the threshold of non-religious society. Bonhoeffer’s “Before God, with God, without God” statement is expected to be an important clue to interpreting non-religious society after COVID-19. The increase in non-face-to-face online worship triggered by COVID-19 has collapsed the aura of existing worship, and existing one-way worship services are being asked to com- municate with each other and to change the form of worship. After the religious phenomenological analysis, I will propose three alternatives to the COVID-19 era: (1) Christian social ethics suitable for the secular age, (2) Christian social ethics overcoming anti-intellectualism, and (3) the ethics of hospitality toward others.

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