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Study on Theological Motherhood Based on the Concept of Mutual Indwelling

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2021, (51), pp.423-458
  • DOI : 10.21050/CSE.2021.51.13
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : October 30, 2021
  • Accepted : December 13, 2021
  • Published : December 31, 2021

Yoo Jin Choi 1

1호남신학대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper engages in the theme behind the maternal discourse that under- mines women’s welfare and well-being and forces an infinite sacrifice, based on the assumption that mothers and children are autonomous entities and that someone has to give up and deny oneself for the sake of the other. If the mother-child relationship is mutually indwelling and interpenetrating, a woman can maintain a healthy conception of motherhood without giving up her subjectivity. In this sense, this paper will first trace the genealogy of how the maternal discourse was invented for a specific purpose at a particular time. After that, it will examine the possibility of a mutual indwelling relationship between mother and child by paying attention to the discourse on the feminist theologians’ metaphor of God the Mother. It will also describe a maternal perspective from medieval mystic liter- ature, the mystical union with Christ such as the mutual indwelling between Christ and Mary, and between Christ and believers. Finally, based on this theological concept of mutual indwelling, we will examine the mother-child relation- ship as a relationship of indwelling through the studies of Beauvoir, Gilligan, Kristeva, and Grenholm.

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