@article{ART003335558},
author={HEEJUN KIM},
title={The Place of Christian Ethics in an Entangled World: Responsibility Prior to Choice and the Common Life},
journal={The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics},
issn={1229-8387},
year={2026},
number={64},
pages={251-280}
TY - JOUR
AU - HEEJUN KIM
TI - The Place of Christian Ethics in an Entangled World: Responsibility Prior to Choice and the Common Life
JO - The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 64
PB - The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
SP - 251
EP - 280
SN - 1229-8387
AB - This paper explores the place of Christian ethics within the ontological condition of “entanglement” in the Anthropocene. Under the New Climatic Regime, where climate crisis and ecological destruction continue to accelerate, the traditional dichotomies of subject/object and human/nature are no longer tenable. We are already entangled with countless human and nonhuman actors, and this entanglement is an ontological fact that precedes our choices. Drawing on Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory and his reconceptualization of Gaia, Emanuele Coccia’s ontology of metamorphosis, a new materialist reframing of hospitality, and the discourse of the commons, this paper proposes two ethical principles: “responsibility prior to choice” and “the common life.” It argues that Christian ethics must be reimagined not as a framework grounded in the autonomous moral subject, but as a relational practice of response-ability that emerges from our already entangled existence with the Earth and its inhabitants.
KW - Entanglement;Christian ethics;Actor-Network Theory;Metamorphosis;Commons
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HEEJUN KIM. (2026). The Place of Christian Ethics in an Entangled World: Responsibility Prior to Choice and the Common Life. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, 64, 251-280.
HEEJUN KIM. 2026, "The Place of Christian Ethics in an Entangled World: Responsibility Prior to Choice and the Common Life", The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, no.64, pp.251-280.
HEEJUN KIM "The Place of Christian Ethics in an Entangled World: Responsibility Prior to Choice and the Common Life" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics 64 pp.251-280 (2026) : 251.
HEEJUN KIM. The Place of Christian Ethics in an Entangled World: Responsibility Prior to Choice and the Common Life. 2026; 64 : 251-280.
HEEJUN KIM. "The Place of Christian Ethics in an Entangled World: Responsibility Prior to Choice and the Common Life" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics no.64(2026) : 251-280.
HEEJUN KIM. The Place of Christian Ethics in an Entangled World: Responsibility Prior to Choice and the Common Life. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, 64, 251-280.
HEEJUN KIM. The Place of Christian Ethics in an Entangled World: Responsibility Prior to Choice and the Common Life. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics. 2026; 64 251-280.
HEEJUN KIM. The Place of Christian Ethics in an Entangled World: Responsibility Prior to Choice and the Common Life. 2026; 64 : 251-280.
HEEJUN KIM. "The Place of Christian Ethics in an Entangled World: Responsibility Prior to Choice and the Common Life" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics no.64(2026) : 251-280.
