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The Church as a Public Face of Agape

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2016, (22), pp.106~131
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Published : July 31, 2016

Chun, Young Ho 1

1미국 세인트 폴 신학교(St. Paul School of Theology, USA)

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ABSTRACT

In that religion is the system of most fundamental belief and interpretation of the world and life, it is the unity as a whole encompassing philosophy, thoughts and culture. But all religions exist not as the abstract ‘religion in general,’ but as an individual which is concrete substance existent unified with particular thoughts, particular region and particular culture. The reflection of the character and reality of religion united in specific human existential circumstances is therefore necessary for those who seek to find out philosophy and thoughts in a particular religion. Under the questioning like this, the present article aims to analyze and criticize the actuality of Christianity in North America and South Korea from various perspectives, on the one hand to anatomize the problems of Christianity which recently became a target of more harsh criticism than ever and on the other hand to ascertain what the essence of the church visibly representing the Christianity as religion could be, in order to understand what the Christianity as religion is and should be.

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