칼빈의 제네바에서의 지역사회복지 실천을 통해 본 한국교회에 주는 통찰

Abstract

Geneva in the 16th century, when Calvin campaigned for the Reformation, was a socially unstable and very poor city. Calvin purified Geneva through community welfare practices. Looking at Calvin's specific community welfare practices in Geneva, First, we were able to carry out professional relief projects through relief-oriented, specialized operations and management, and systematic relief activities, breaking away from the rule-of-thumb relief methods previously used in Catholicism. Second, we created two types of deacon positions positions in Geneva so that they could perform their work professionally and efficiently in welfare facilities. Third, a system was established in which churches and city authorities collaborated to carry out community welfare projects in Geneva so that local welfare projects in Geneva could be operated stably and effectively. Fourth, by redesigning and institutionalizing Almshouses in Geneva, a service system that can meet various welfare needs has been established to provide care and treatment for the socially underprivileged, education that helps them become self-reliant, and various welfare services in charge of childcare for children. Fifth, the French Relief Fund was established to help Geneva's poor refugees and solve various welfare problems for the socially underprivileged through systematic fundraising and distribution. Sixth, a social enterprise, a silk factory, was established in Geneva to help poor evacuees who at the time had the skills of sericulture and sericulture make their living and self-sufficiency. Through Calvin's community welfare practice, it was possible to overcome the welfare problems of various scattered communities in Geneva and helped the Reformation succeed in Geneva. We can gain an insight into the implications of the Korean church through Calvin's community welfare practice. First, using the role of a double deacon in Geneva as a lesson, we recognize that all members of the church are responsible for the welfare of the community as well as serving the church, and the church should actively establish a place for members to devote themselves to welfare in the community. Second, using Calvin's public-private cooperation in Geneva as a lesson, we can explore the efficiency and development direction of community welfare through cooperation with local churches and public institutions. Third, looking at Calvin's welfare program, which created and distributed the French Relief Fund, a voluntary fund for the relief of poor refugees and the socially disadvantaged in Geneva, local churches in Korea recognize that there should be a promotion of social welfare for institutional efforts to actively utilize the church's finances for the vulnerable in the community.