에큐메니칼 영성에 기초한 통일된 예배의식의 가능성

Abstract

If there is an ecumenical spirituality disclosing the spirit of the ecumenical movement, the basic and fundamental act, which shows and expresses the spirituality in a concrete form, shall be a liturgical worship service based upon the spirit. In this regard, the aim of this article is to seek for a possibility to find the structure and form of an unified liturgical service based upon the ecumenical spirituality and to show a model (or example) of ecumenical worship service. Ecumenism, whose features are to express the contents of the spirit of the ecumenical movement, has been defined as the harmony and unity of the ecclesiastical confession between churches. However, in this article, I seek to understand a spirituality of one-in-many or of democratic convergence, which respects regional difference and diversity and builds up harmony, while it expresses its faith as one and fulfills practical action for it as one, rather than that of constrained unity forcing over-simplification and standardization. Thus, the ecumenical spirituality shall fulfill ‘participative harmony’ recognizing the diversity of each other and actualizing their unity when it wants to become a living movement seeking for ‘the unity of the confessions in content of all churches through its common liturgy. In this regard, the common liturgy, which expresses the spirituality of the ecumenical movement, is not to suggest a kind of Sunday worship service in a fixed form but to show a common framework for ecumenical service in its content and order which is designed for some special moments in seasons like Easter, Advent and Christmas or for special projects of the movement. Also, I believe it would be a huge contribution to the ecumenical movement to show the active unity of domestic and foreign missions by commonly having an ecumenical liturgy for some rites of passage.