한국교회의 위기 극복을 위한 대안교회로서의 대학교회: 계명대학교회를 중심으로

Abstract

This study is an attempt to explore the possibilities of university church as an alternative church as well as an adaptable and a competitive paradigm for overcoming the crisis in the Korean church in the post-modern era. To the end, the study analyzes crisis in the secularized churches and suggests pastoral alternatives for overcoming the crisis. The first step for the purposes is to make a diagnosis of the causes of main crises in the contemporary church and to propose theological solutions to the problems. For second step, the study proceeds to examine pastoral possibilities in the university church as an alternative model for the renewal. And the last step deals with a particular university church with healthy ecclesiology and organization. The study finds out that the main crises of the contemporary Korean church are in the minus growth and the loss of social confidence. The basic cause of the crises based on the endless seeking of quantitative growth, without qualitative one. It argues that the solving prescription of the crises is to recover the nature and mission of the church and to reform the organization and method of ministry. It presupposes that the particularity of the university church has the possibility to be an alternative paradigm. The university church is established by the Christian university as an alternative church especially for the campus mission and its family. The university church is free of the responsibility for the quantitative growth and thus devotes itself to achieve the nature and mission of the church. It also belongs to the university much more public institution than normal churches and thus seeks to maintain its social confidence. In this sense, the paradigm of the university church is different from the traditional one which seeks quantitative growth,nominal faith, church, and clergy-centered authoritative organization which are causes of the crisis, rather than qualitative growth, practical faith, society, and laypeople-centered democratic organization. These characteristics of paradigm leads the university church as an alternative model to be more creative and sensitive to the challenge by the postmodern society.