“한국 기독교 사회윤리학”의 학문적 정위

Abstract

In this paper, I explored how we would define Korean Christian social ethics rightly. For this purpose, I analyzed the essential conditions of scholarship, firstly. After I referred six conditions of scholarship, I showed a learning as theology satisfied those conditions. Secondly, I examined the scholarship of Christian ethics, using the definition of Christian ethics by James M. Gustafson. Thirdly, this paper explained social ethics, distinguished from personal ethics. Especially, I said Christian ethicists had developed the inquiry of social ethics in advance of the philosophical ethicists. In conclusion, I defined Korean Christian social ethics by line as followings.: “Korean Christian social ethics is a study, having both sides of faith and rationality, done by the research groups such as professional Christian social ethical scholars with its own ethical methodology, which analyzes Korean social situations different from the west by the tool of social sciences, reflects on the improvement of the present social structure and social institutions, realizing social justice and transforming society not to be solved in the field of personal ethics, with faith and theology adjusted in a Korean point of view, in the perspective of the Bible and doctrinal traditions emphasizing human sociality, investigates the social ethical practices, tunes up different views of practices among various denominations, makes a public consensus through the communication with people outside of church, decides on the contents of ministerial and social practices with his own social responsibility, and evaluates the results following the practical implementation.”