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A Study on the Formation Factors of the Family Violence Victims’ God-Images and the Theological Response

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2011, 16(), pp.126-150
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2011.16..126
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : April 14, 2011
  • Accepted : May 12, 2011

Sunghwan Kim 1

1광신대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The central aim of this study relates to the issue of exploring some formation factors of the family violence victims' God-images within the Korean Church and proposing brief theological direction in order to reframe their distorted God-images biblically. The family violence victims' God-images within the Korean Church can be easily distorted on account of the interaction among terrible violence experience and other causes. Due to this, as the researcher believes, their deep heart wound might not be healed easily and their growth of faith could be hindered. Thus, this study tries to examine some factors in the perspectives of object relation theory, the Korean traditional religions, social paradigm shift and neuro-physiology. As a result, many factors such as, negative violent parents'images, apathetic and frightening God-image within the Korean traditional religions, chaotic understanding the entity of biblical God and an image of God as a tool, fear and anger feeling toward God remain etched in the amygdala deep inside the human brain might influence interactively on formation of distorted victims' God-images. In order to build and suggest a more relevant theological direction to reframe victims' God-images, this study proposes the theology of compassion and theodicy on the basis of God's compassion, grace, consolation, hope,especially in the light of the Christ's death and resurrection on the cross.

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