능력주의 사회에서 한국교회의 사회 윤리적 과제에 대한 연구

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the human and social problems of a meritocratic society and to present an ethical idea for more just society from the perspective of Christian social ethics. Meritocratic society exploitspeople, gives victors moral arrogance and losers a feeling of humiliation, spreads social and economic inequality, and puts democracy at risk. As an ethical task of the Korean churches, it is necessary to redefinea concept of justice that can secure the real equality of opportunity for all. It’s political tasks are to innovate school education system that reproduces meritocracy myth and ideology, and restore the value and dignity of labor to cope with the labor crisis under the financial capitalism. As a theological task, the Korean churches must expose the meritocratic ideology that destroys human dignity and communal life, and morallyjustifies socioeconomic inequality. They must actively participate in the public forum to foster the spirit of solidarity and common good life for a better world. And human justice must be corrected through God’s justice based on the dialectic of love and justice. Lastly, they must strive to solve the problem of church like as prosperity and success theology and polarization between mega and small churches, and between urban and rural churches. Only then can they provide the imagination of an alternative society to the meritocratic society.