제네바 종교개혁 정신에 비추어 본 제4차 산업혁명과 사회적 기본권 보편보장제도 성찰

Abstract

As unemployment or unemployed status arises from the radical disintegration of industrial structure due to the arrival of the fourth industrial revolution, the mainstream views it as a natural or incidental damage that takes place amid changes in the industrial structure. Resisting this mainstream view, this study aims to address the pain of a majority of victims who cannot promptly adjust to a new industry as a fundamental and essential theme that Christian ethics should deal with. To this end, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the study examines the details of social and religious reforms in Geneva, Switzerland, home to the French religious reformer John Calvin. It also looks into direct relief systems of the churches to guarantee the fundamental rights of the socially weak, which had been implemented along with religious reforms. Furthermore, this study explores the contents and significance of social security systems that began to be established in the political and public sectors with strong support from the Protestant churches and believers. In this background, what should be considered first in a modern sense is the right to live and the right to pursue happiness in life of those who have become socially and economically vulnerable due to structural changes in the turbulent era of the fourth industrial revolution. Based on this perception, the study discusses the need for building a welfare society and systems to guarantee the fundamental rights in response to these changes. In particular, the study aims to suggest ways to reconstruct Korean churches, which have recently begun to lose social respect to a serious extent, by presenting the necessity, justification, and methodology to reinterpret the necessity of this new society and systems in the language of theology as a duty of theology and the churches.