교회력에 나타난 시간의 항상성 연구

Abstract

In the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, when various new normals are emerging, discussing the church year may seem like an anachronism. This is because in the current situation, where we have passed the pandemic and the endemic and entered the endemic blue era, there is a strong tendency to weaken or devalue the importance of the church year itself. Although time is God's creation and Christianity is a religion that values ​​time, the reality is that even Christians are bound by the efficiency of time and live in the time of the world. The tendency of contemporary individuals to maximize the efficiency of time in order to save it and use it densely, like the term ‘minutes and seconds society’, also contributes to this. In this reality, although Christians live in the world's time called chronos, this study began with the awareness of the problem of how to continue to remember the grace received in Jesus Christ and properly live kairos, God's time. The subject of this study is to create a culture of immediacy through cutting-edge technology and an era of extreme speed that progresses more rapidly and radically than ever before, through the correct recognition and re-establishment of the church year established from the early church to the 4th century. The goal is to remind living Christians of the constancy of time centered on Jesus Christ. Thus, we would like to reaffirm that the church year is a means of permanent grace that allows us to live toward infinite kairos even in finite time. To this end, this study uses a literature survey methodology as a whole, and although it is only a small part, it attempts an interdisciplinary research method from the departments of historical theology and law. Next, I will examine how important the constancy of time contained in the church year is, focusing on Time and Eternity, which is best expressed in St. Augustine's theory of time. Thus, even though they are already living according to God's time in the constancy of time, it enables Christians of today who were unaware of it to rediscover the true meaning of the church year and the constancy of time, and further, through this, each person's new normal. I would like to end the discussion with suggestions on how to live by establishing this.