한국사회 양극화와 기독교의 삼위일체론적 공동체성

Abstract

Today, Korean society is experiencing extreme bipolarization. Politically, public opinion is almost exactly divided in half along the structure of extreme confrontation between the left and the right, and political antagonism among families, work, and friends is widely noticed. Along with this political conflicts, regional sentiments and opinions concerning women’s rights are also worrisomely divided. Economically, neo-liberal capitalism divides society between the super-rich capitalists and the rest in a 1:99 ratio, which becomes a major factor in growing social unrest today. If we zoom out to see the mega-trends today, philosophies such as individualistic humanism and postmodernism are alienating many young people from meaningful social relationships. These unfortunate trends seem to only grow stronger by the technological revolutions of the fourth industrial revolution and the COVID-19 pandemic. In this quarantined, hyper-connected society we are driven into thorough isolation where there is no hope for communal life. This article seeks to find a way to resolve the deepening political, economic, and cultural bipolarization problems of today's Korean society from a Christian perspective. For that purpose this article focuses on the ideal communality underlying the Christian faith. Specifically this article focuses on the trinitarian communality of God, which is the original source of Christian communality. By introducing and discussing Social Trinitarianism – a contemporary theological interpretation of the Trinity – this article discovers essential principles from divine, social nature of the Trinity. This article further argues that the principles of divine communality shown by the Trinity can be applied to human society as viable principles of communality. The evidence for such a claim is the existence of family and the church. Christian theology recognizes the family and the church as two communities established by God, and that the trinitarian principles of communality operate within these human communities. In conclusion, this article suggests that the divine principles of communality found in the Trinity and operating in family and the church may become a solution for remedying the bipolarizing Korean society.