기독교 인성교육에서 인성개념 도출과 인성교육 방향을 위한 제언

Abstract

The goal of this study is to present the Christian values and to provide the necessity and direction for Christian character education as a way to teach the Christian values. Lately, the interest in Character education has rapidly grown in our society. It is because people today seems to be losing their qualities. It seems students need to develop healthy and well-functioning character. Thus, our government established the Law of Promotion of Character Education. Character education is nothing new. Traditionally, Character education has been existed and practiced as a form to teach values in formal or informal ways. Recently, in the field of Christian education, the interest in character education is also increasing. However, although both general education and Christian education seem to pursue the same goal in developing one’s character, the goal is totally distinguished. Christian character education is carried out to develop Christian character in accordance with the kingdom of God, not to develop values which correspond to society or culture. This study followed the same way how values are selected for character education. Christians belongs to the Kingdom of God and are responsible to find and internalize the values of the Kingdom of God. In this study, as the core Christian values, the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit(Gal. 5:22-23) and the attributes of genuine disciples(Matt. 5: 3-11) are presented. Church which embodied the kingdom of God should be the context to help Christians develop Christian character. In addition, this study introduce possible programs in order to develop the values of the Kingdom of God such as Christian education pursuing wholeness of humanity, mentoring, and habit formation program.