초월과 내재를 매개하는 은혜의 선물로 오시는 하나님 개념에 대한 고찰

Abstract

This article explores the concept of grace as gift of God phenomenologically as well as ethically. If we understand Jesus Christ as the mediator of transcendence and immanence, the incarnation of Christ is the realization of the grace of God. In this reason, the concept has been always analyzed based on christological approach. In this article, I want to focus on God as the giver of grace. How can we understand God as the giver of grace? If we focus on the concept of God, the gap between transcendence and immanence will not be incompatible? Recent scholarship have contributed to this complicated problem by the help of phenomenology and ethics. This article consists of the followings. First, I will explore grace as gift of God in relation to the concept of 'gift' in the assumption that gift is the most similar act to the concept of grace. I will examine how gift can achieve its real meaning and how God himself is the best 'Gift and Grace' to us. Second, I will show that his love is unmeasurable and beyond our limit by using Jean-Luc Marion's concept of icon. Marion asserts that iconic thought provokes God, whereas idolous thought confines the concept of God. He argues that ontological thought is the main cause of concept of God falling into idolized thought. Third, I will argue that the response to the grace of God as gift can be realized in a form of ethic of the other, because this ethic can also be found in the doctrine of Kenosis. In conclusion, this study will contribute to build up a more clear concept of grace based on God as a gift and how we can live in this world as a recipient his grace individually as well as communally.