천년 왕국설의 신학사적 고찰 - 고대 그리스도교의 종말 사상을 중심으로 -

Abstract

God loved human so much as to be a human being to show presence of salvation. He received the death for he was the perfect man, and he revealed the resurrection transcending over the death. The man who experienced Jesus’ birth, death and resurrection is living in waiting for the fulfillment of the promise that he will come again to redeem us. But the apostles has experienced of Jesus’ coming of delay. They had to face with the people who intercepted confessing the belief of Jesus, and had to discern the faith of the Church. The discussion of Early Christianity paid attention to the divinity and humanity of Christ, and had to demonstrate the Holy Trinity in scope of human being’s shape. And the Church confessed it. But the discernment about that belief didn’t only remain there. It should be rightly discerned between the hope and the incitement of Jesus’ second coming, because there were people who asserted against the Church belief. One of the theories was that the advent of the kingdom of God built by the second coming of Christ. That was the waiting for the Millenarianism. That theory set up the definite term of present being on the earth which is to wait and prepare coming of heavenly Jerusalem on this earth. And the Christianity which was influenced by Judaism tradition interpreted the Bible and this eschatological waiting by the Bible to materialism and tried to judge this in human shape. But that could not be the right hope of the Church. In eschatology faith, the hope merely cannot focus on de Novissimis. Because the Church is established by Jesus, is on the way of journey to heavenly kingdom of God while experiencing the presence of Jesus. Early Church Doctors who made efforts to think about this seriously, agonized over de Novissimis which is about the resurrection of mortal body and immortal soul, had to worry about what the final fate of the Christians would be and had to make a guess about the end of the world. Such introspection cannot be remained only under the dimension of Millenarianism eschatology which was made only through the Bible literal exegesis. Furthermore, that was never officially accepted in the Church. Rather, the introspection about the eschatology of Christianity has to look at the completion of kingdom of God which has not yet been accomplished, but the fate of Christian who already fulfilled the kingdom of God in the Church. The introspection about the eschatological faith in antiquated Christianity is to be the hope for modern Christian, and will be the message to this era where still wrong eschatology agitators are.