성폭력 피해여성을 지원하는 교회공동체의 목회신학 연구

Abstract

Sexual violence is a terrible crime that destroys the life of an individual. The incidence of crimes of sexual violence in our society continues to climb, and women in church are no different from any other women regarding their vulnerability to sexual violence. However, the church is rather patriarchal due to its theological tradition and forces the victim of such violent crimes to be silent without their voices and experiences being heard. In reality, the church community is unable to actively understand and accept the victims of such crime. The aim of this study is to propose a pastoral theology and guidelines for the role of the church community in supporting victims of sexual violence. In chapter 2, I analyze the psychology of women as victims of sexual violence and review the theories presented in Christie Cozad Neuger and James Newton Poling in order to help establish guidelines in pastoral theology. Neuger criticizes traditional theology for its patriarchal church point of view. She has studied pastoral theology as applied to victims of sexual violence. In her book, she proposes a new framework for pastoral theology called the correlational spiral. On the other hand, Poling describes sexual violence as an abuse of power by the gender power structure. He also mentions the community’s characteristics of love that can support both perpetrators and victims. Based on this background, this study will attempt to analyze case studies. In chapter 4, I propose guidelines for the church community in Korea in dealing with female victims of sexual violence. The guidelines help understand and emphasize the practice of pastoral theology by the church community for female victims of sexual violence. I firmly believe that through these guidelines the church community of Korea can establish a pastoral theology that can understand and accept female victims of sexual violence and support them as a whole by the community going forward.