교회의 재발견:부흥운동을 넘어 대안적 윤리공동체로

Abstract

Studies on the essence and mission of church is main subject of theology. Specially, study on mission and vision of Korean Church is very important for tomorrow of church. The purpose of this paper is to study the ethical task for desirable image of the future of Korean church. Many Christians in Korea eager to revive the glorious honor and joyfulness of Pyeong-yang Great Revival in 1907. Christians in Korea think that the method of revival is to gather so many people through a mammoth events. But the reality is not so good. Nowadays, church of Korea stopped to growing and faced at social criticism. The causes of these problems would be various. This paper empathize the factor of morality of Christian in Korea. Church and Christians are situated at anti-Christian tendency. Many people blame Christians and church because of some moral problems of church leaders. There would be meaningful criticism for reflection and be one-sided blame to Christianity also.Now, this paper focused on two points; (1) the main factor of crisis is ethical problems of Christian and Church in Korea. (2) the genuine method of overcoming of crisis is to 'let church be church'. As S. Hauerwas says, church is social ethics itself. And church must recover its moral uniqueness in this libertarian society. Also Church must be an alternative in morally confused age and recover the tradition of Gospel-narrative for peace-making in the age of war and violence. And the practical task of revival is to make church and Christian to be an ethically mature Christian. The most important thing to practice is to do morally in many areas of Christian life. Especially ministrial ethics and ethical ministry must be realized by moral ministers. Through various moral practices church of Korea could be revived. In this meaning, the most urgent task is not gathering mammoth events but reviving the ethical authority of church.