북한선교를 위한 ‘주체사상’ 과‘유물론적 신학’의 대화

Abstract

It is South Korea that Christian mission is the most successful in Asia. Even though South Korean church has stagnated, the share of South Korean church is the Chinese mission and North Korean mission. Because North Korea is the Korean race, the church of South Korea should regard the North Korean mission the most important mission rather than the Chinese mission and the South Asian mission. Currently, the North Korean mission concentrates on the aid project for North Korea, the reconstruction of the North Korean Churches, and unification movement. The North Korean mission focusing on unification movement can be called as horizontal mission. And the North Korean mission for the aid project for North Korea and the reconstruction of the North Korean churches can be called as the vertical mission. However, this article is going to emphasizes that the North Korean mission should develop the deep mission beyond the vertical mission and the horizontal mission. It is interesting that the North Korean mission should regard North Korea as other culture or other religion. This means that the South Korean church thinks of North Korea as the same culture with South Korea, and does not thinks of North Korea’s Juche Idea as a religion. However, the two arguments does not try to reconstruct Christian gospel to be appropriate with North Korea. The deep North Korean mission engages to reconstruct Christian Gospel being appropriate with the present system of North Korean. In other words, the deep North Korean mission struggles for the theology of North Korea. It is true that the guidance ideology of North Korea is Juche Idea. Even though the Juch Idea is regarded as a political ideology or a religion, it is the idealogical base of North Korean people. Therefore, the creation of North Korean Theology should be one of the important missions beyond the dialogue between Juche Idea and Christianity. For the creation of North Korean Theology to contribute to the deep North Korean mission, this article are going to engage on the relationship between Slavoj Zizek’s theology and the North Korean Juche Idea. Slavoj Zizek thinks of himself as a materialist and interprets Christianity. According to Zizek, one should experience Christianity in order to become an authentic dialectical materialist. Because Zizek is a atheist and materialist, his interpretation of Christianity can contribute to the construction of North Korean theology as a stepping-stone. The Theology of unification is very significant in the discourse of North Korean mission but North Korean Theology and Christianity should be constructed before the theology of unification. In this respect, this article will articulate the relativeness between Juche Idea and Zizek’s material theology.