바르트 삼위일체론의 현대적 의미 ― 하나님 존재 이해의 현대적 과제를 위하여

Abstract

It is the purpose of this treatise to characterize Barth’s trinitarian understanding of God of as a revelational realism which emphasizes the historical presence of immanent trinity of God in the humanity of Jesus Christ. According to Karl Barth, the reality of Jesus Christ as the word of God is the only one special reality that God and Man together become one true reality for its own and also for the other. The special understanding of Barth that the inner-being of God is revealed at the moment of God’s act to the world in the reality of Jesus Christ, makes it possible to acknowledge the real presence of God in the historical dimension. Barth interprets the doctrine of Trinity according to his own understanding of revelation in Jesus Christ. Consequently, the unity of trinitarian God is nothing but the self-Identity of God that three beings of God (Seinsweise) are defined totally as the same God itself, in so far as that God’s beings are distinctively identified with the three doings of God. The Diversity of trinitarian God is defined as the three distinct realities of God’s doing presence in himself and at the same time toward the world, in so far as the God’s doings are identified with the God’s three beings. And the unity and diversity of trinitarian God designates that God’s being as the historical actual being is the living God who loves the world in his freedom and so speaks to the world and give us the grace of redemption. The Barth’s understanding of trinitarian God affirms the possibility of trinitarian understanding of God among the new kinds of tasks, namely first of all, the emphasis of future by the interpretation of revelation, secondly, the symbolic understanding of trinitarian God, and lastly, the possibility of correspondence with the modern physical viewpoint of reality. Barth’s doctrine of Trinity opens us a new theological horizon to respond to these new tasks according to the biblical understanding of God. Barth’s trinitarian understanding involves the God’s work from the creation to the eschatological achievement of the redemption always at his present doing. This means that God’s trinitarian work implies three time dimensions(past-present-future) at the every single event of the historical procedure. And, according to Barth, it is also important to see that the trinitarian understanding of God is meaningful only through the exegetic understanding of the revelatory event of Jesus Christ. Lastly, when we develop the meaning of the historical characterization of the revelation itself in Jesus Christ, it is also possible to suggest the revelational realism of trinitarian God as a alternative for the new kind of reality understanding in a scientific age.