4차 산업혁명시대의 교회의 역할과 방향

Abstract

With the unimaginably rapid advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution Era, companies which predicted a change and dominated the market in advance although political and economic predictions missed the mark globally are strengthening their control over the market and many countries of the world are struggling to use the 4th Industrial Revolution based on their key industries. As the 4th Industrial Revolution requires a new insight on the existence of human beings and human values beyond the boundary between industry and technology different from the past three industrial revolutions, it will come as a more intensified conflict across the entire areas of church. In such situations, the current Korean churches began practical theology-based discussions on the 4th Industrial Revolution Era and the religious world needs to explore alternatives more actively at the overall level. The role of church in the 4th Industrial Revolution Era does not lie in knowing how to use scientific technology. More essentially, it lies in what alternatives churches can look for against uncertainty and imbalance as much as they change at rapid rate. In this study, the researcher looks at the characteristics of the 4th Industrial Revolution Era and the reality of Korean churches and proposes the role of Korean churches in two directions for the 4th Industrial Revolution Era. The first is Christian spiritual restoration, which puts its basis on the essence of christian faith. Christian spirituality needs to be restored because churches have a mission to preach that humans are a creation of God that scientific technology cannot replace although it continues to evolve and spiritual beings that can get acquainted with God. The second is coping actively with social changes and reinforcing community spirit. In the 4th Industrial Revolution Era, churches need to be a community that can communicate more, and be flexible and autonomous in forming a relationship. In the 4th Industrial Revolution Era, Korean churches have to start again from spiritual restoration and community. They have to play their role with interests in people, society, and scientific technology that they had missed outside the church walls so far. Churches, as a spiritual community will have to carry out their mission with spirituality and sociality combined by establishing self-identity and practicing sociality in the relationship with neighbors in the 4th Industrial Revolution Era.