개혁주의생명신학과 대학채플의 위기타파 : 국가인권위원회의 대학채플 권고안들에 대한 백석학원 채플의 대응전략

Abstract

The thesis of this paper is that when the university chapel adheres to ‘life-saving worship and evangelism’ based on the Reformed theology of life, it can rather overcome the current crisis of the chapel, and that we have to come up with an alternative assignment plan for the university chapel that makes it possible. In May 2021, the National Human Rights Commission sent a correctional advisor to the University Chapel. “University Chapel, a sectarian education, is violating the human rights of students. Therefore, the university chapel should open an alternative course and give the students a choice.” The response of the University Chapel, who felt threatened by these judgments and recommendations, was a misjudgment and inexperienced response. The University Chapel decided that the problem would be solved if the ‘sect education’ was abolished and switched to an objective religious liberal arts education. And it tried to erase the color of ‘worship and evangelism’ and fill it with ‘humanity and culture’. This resulted in the university chapel denying its own identity as ‘worship and evangelism’. Nevertheless, the situation worsened. In April 2022, the Human Rights Committee ruled that Jeonju University Chapel, which had actually changed its form to ‘character and culture’, was still ‘sect education’. Therefore, efforts to escape the crisis through the ‘shape change’ of the university chapel have failed, and the image of the university chapel is not improving. Now it’s time to unscrew the misplaced button and put it back together. The identity of the university chapel was originally a worship service and a meeting for evangelism. A university chapel based on the Reformed theology of life must adhere to and improve its identity, ‘worship and evangelism’. In fact, the worship and evangelism itself, which is called sect education, did not take issue with the court or the Human Rights Commission. The problem was related to the student’s religious freedom. The alternative task requested by the Human Rights Commission in relation to religious freedom is a cautious issue that university chapels need to solve. It will never be easy to come up with an appropriate and reasonable alternative task, but when there is such effort, the university chapel can be evaluated as accepting rather than confronting the demands of ‘human rights and equality’ of this age. And It will further turn the crisis of the university chapel into a new opportunity.