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Bonhoeffer and Jewish Problem

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2023, (56), pp.99-125
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : June 3, 2023
  • Accepted : August 1, 2023
  • Published : August 31, 2023

AN IL KANG 1

1서울신학대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper examines the implications of the “Jewish problem” for Bonhoeffer. To this end, this paper began by looking at how Bonhoeffer was related to the understanding of the Old Testament under the premise that his theology and life were intimately connected. First of all, the understanding of the Old Testament is due to Bonhoeffer’s close connection between the Old Testament understanding and Jewish matters. In this way, Bonhoeffer made it clear that knowing the Old Testament was the way to properly understand the New Testament. Finally, this paper shows the significance of the Jewish problem to Bonhoeffer in three aspects. One is that Korean Christians must be retrained to read the Old and New Testaments together. The other is to support organizations dealing with the “Jewish problem” so that the issue of Jews and Judaism in Korea can be renewed. Finally, as the Jewish church at that time was connected to the essential problems of the true church, the church’s position on the MV Sewol victims of the tragedy victims and the comfort women victims in Japan is clearly present. Because these victims are also members of the church. Like the historical background that Bonhoeffer accepted the “Jewish problem” as the church’s existence, the issue of MV Sewol and the comfort women is not just a political, economic, or social problem, but in Bonhoeffer’s point of view, the nature of the church’s position.

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