포스트모던 시대의 신학의 가능성: 밀뱅크의 급진적 정통주의를 중심으로

Abstract

It is regrettable that it is seemed as truth that we, theologians, has no other ways except to accept this trend of secularisation which can be found in the near of our daily life under the name of “postmodernism.”Infact, many theologians east and west tries to accommodate themselves to this mega trend of our days out of various reasons;while some east theologians finds a liberation motif from the west centered world views, which dominated whole world last centuries, in this so called postmodernism, other west theologians believes to detect a ground of rehabilitation of religion against the reason centered secular culture. Therefore it is meaningful to reflect on this new theology which is called as “radical orthodoxy”. This Theology tries to refute the uncritically consumed presupposition that postmodernism is a pivotal result of development of history of west philosophy. This theology would like to deprive the postmodernism of any ground of legitimation. John Milbank, as a leading theologian of this newly formed theological thought, connects fundamental elements of postmodernism with nihilistic principles of social construction, in which a poor and week could be legitimately regarded as a prey for social stability:civilization stands on the blood of other poor people. It consists of fundamental factor of John Milbank’s critcis of modern humanism that such a submissive attitude in regard to social violence is permitted because of the paganism. And this same attitude prolongs in the slight transformed postmodernic understanding of the being. Deeply seen, it is one of the same tradition to which a insight of the ontological difference ,which has an important role in the philosophy of M. Heidegger(and other postmodernic philosophers), leads our view of virtues. So he concludes that these two movements are, in some sense, identical with each other and these two can be seen as homogeneous. In contrast to this movement of postmodernism, John Milbank would like to indicate there is an another tradition of the understanding of the being, which has its root in the theological philosophy of Thomas Aqiun. His analogical thinking of the being could be understood as the new corner stone for the newly emerging theology. This analogical understanding of Being makes it possible, that church,which is ruled by the presence of the spirit, namely by the love of God, represent itself as the analogical reality of God’s narrartive story. Concretely he undertakes to compromise some important elements of theology, which comes from social scinece. to make this church as a starting point of theology itslelf. According to John Milbank christianity should takes this social factor seriously. In spite of this great contribution of the radical orthodoxy, it must also answer some fundamental, even radical problems. Is this analogical understanding of the Being enough to meet the eschatological imperative of God’s narratives? What makes the church as the eschatological community, in which the secularity of our ordinary life can be overcomed? Can be the theory of Narrarive Understanding a good tool for the reality of the Word of God?