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Being the Church: the Concept of Witness in the Theological Ethics of Stanley Hauerwas

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2022, (52), pp.155-176
  • DOI : 10.21050/CSE.2022.52.05
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : March 12, 2022
  • Accepted : April 11, 2022
  • Published : April 30, 2022

HEEJUN KIM 1

1독립연구자

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This article seeks to introduce Stanley Hauerwas’s understanding of the church as a communal witness, in order to offer an alternative reading of Hauerwas’s theological ethics in the Korean context. After examining with the concept of witness what kind of community Hauerwas has postulated, this article shows how and why that community needs to be distinguished as the church. The concept of witness in Hauerwas’s theological ethics includes both the community and the individuals as the agent of hospitality and truthfulness. In this understanding, this article argues that the community Hauerwas presents should be the church where the God of Scripture is worshipped and where the distinctive character and story of God revealed in Christ are lived out as a gift for and an alternative to the world.

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