시적 상상력과 종교 다원주의

Abstract

The poetry and religion is frequently understood to be in opposition despite of the original resemblance. In particular, Korean modern poetry and Christian in Korea was divided each other just as they did not get over the dichotomy between the belief and common customs. The religious pluralism furnish the opportunity on conversation between another religion and cultural discourse. The aim of this essay is to grope for the desirable combination by means of looking into the relation between the poetic imagination and religious pluralism. The subject of analysis is the poems of Ko, Jin-Ha to try deliberating more definitely this theme. As the minister and poet, Ko, Jin-Ha has endeavored to combine the poetry and the religion in a wholesale way. His works did not lead the traditional doctrine and had dismantled the view of God and Universe of Christianity, and have so profound in meaning on Korean Christian poetry. On this study, I divided the poems of Ko, Jin-Ha into the former term and latter term and observed the procedure of change of his poems. He had chiefly criticized the absence of God and the sterility of reality with his poems of the former term. And he had sung the omnipresent sanctity with his poems of the latter term full filled with ecological imagination. The ‘widely held religious property’ of the former term was scattered to the open-hearted and pluralistic standpoint. Therefore I had confirmed the sense of intimacy and the possibility of combination between the poetic imagination and religious pluralism.