종교생태사상에 대한 시론적 연구 -이케다 다이사쿠의 생태인식을 중심으로-

Abstract

The mainstream Christian theology based on creation stories pursues “humanism” that places humans at the center of all things and treats other creatures as inferior objects. Here creatures other than human beings are only temporary tools for human survival and prosperity. This human-centered thinking made the environment surrounding human beings integrated into the logic of development and conquest. It works with a hierarchical sense of order in which one’s the world is viewed as ‘the whole’ and the other is evaluated as ‘part’. Here, ecological theology emerged in various theological fields as a critical reflection of theological reasons for tooling nature. In this paper, we mentioned the ecological theology which stands out, combining the agential model of Sally McFaeg with the organic model as one of its representative. However, this ecological theology within Christianity conquered, used, separated, objected, and instrumentalized nature in the face of ‘humanism’. On the other hand, they were obsessed with “God-centralism” and showed the limits of not going beyond Christian centralism. In addition, the commonality between the two is that they are ecological theology composed of God’s presupposition system. As an alternative ecological discourse, we looked at Ikeda’s religious ecological ideas, which goes beyond Christian-centered ecological theology and ‘species-discrimination’, ‘species-hierarchy’, and toward ‘species-egalitarianism’. Ikeda’s characteristic of religious ecology, ‘species-egalitarianism’, can be a religious mechanism that can work on common ground for encountering, dialogue, cooperation and coexistence with this position, other religious types that presuppose ‘species-egalitarianism’. In this regard, Ikeda’s religious ecology is a shift from ecological theology that developed from God-centered system of Western theology to religious ecological thinking based on ‘species-egalitarianism’.