한국교회에 대한 신해철의 비판과 신학적 응답

Abstract

The late Shin Hae-Chul can be regarded as a ‘cultural revolutionary’ who tried to change the world by influencing the masses with cultural expressions centering on music in the history of popular music and culture in Korea. He severely criticized the Korean Church that internalizes and aggravates the problems of the Korean society. His criticism of the Korean Church is of great value as a cultural text in that it makes the Korean Church reflect on themselves from the perspective of the masses and provides a cultural field in which the Korean Church and the masses can communicate with each other earnestly. This paper aims to explore Shin Hae-Chul’s criticism of the Korean Church and provide a theological response to that, in order to at- tempt a communication between the Korean Church and the masses. To this end, this paper performs the following three tasks. First, it explains his Christian background which is helpful for understanding his criticism of the Korean Church. Second, it reconstructs his criticism of the Korean Church, which the masses are sharing through various media, as a logical, systematic argument. Third, it provides a theological response to the reconstructed criti- cism, in a way that understands and reflects on the problems of the Korean Church but evaluates the nature and limitation of the criticism and accepts and develops questions and tasks which it poses.