켄 윌버의 四象限(four quadrants)에서 본 기독교적 죽음이해

Abstract

This article is an attempt to understand death from the viewpoint of Christianity. Here death means a natural 'well-dying. As we know, in our modern society of capitalism death is usually regarded as a disgust. So the solitude of dying person became a big social problem. In reality money or material condition is recognized as the best condition for well-dying. But this article tries to show which kind of role biblical evidence of ‘after-death’ faith plays for a well-dying. Especially while this article is relying on the perspective of theologian J. Moltmann, it attempts to reconstruct christian after death faith according to Ken Wilber's ‘four quadrants’ theory. The purpose is to consider christian understanding of ‘dying’ in more generalized form. Another main job of this article is that ‘dying’ also habe to be understood in viewpoints of ‘Imago dei’. Namely a death also occurs in relation to God. This article suggests Jesus as a model of ‘well-dying’.