성례전을 통한 생태의식 고양 가능성에 관한 연구: 아프리카 독립교회를 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to get some possibilities of environment consciousness and ethics for Korean churches through the experiences of African Independent Churches. Mission churches and AICs are the two primary ecclesial contexts in which African initiative has occurred. Mission churches are those that have evolved from the outreach of Western denominations and still represent the collegial traditions concerned. African Initiated Churches are the churches begun by Africans in Africa primarily for African. In fact, As regards the African Initiated Churches,Missionary genius, missionary methods and missiological significance of AICs have not been studies in depth. Christian mission deals with the outreach of Christian faith and life in the extension of Christ's good news beyond the boundaries of ignorance, cultures, poverty, suffering or whatever obstacles obscure a clear Christian witness in the world. In AICs, the interpretation of a prophetic healing ministry is inevitably very wide. Illness was viewed not only as individual psychosomatic afflictions but also as sociopolitical conflicts and crises which had to be resolved in terms of very real perception of God's expanding kingdom. So we can say that the church liberating humankind from poverty and deprivation and the church healing an abused earth are integrally linked in the AICs. In short,the prophetic churches's ministry of healing quite naturally came to be extended to buring social and political issues in AICs’ecclesiology. Some AICs have a close identification of Christ's body with the abused and barren soil make sense. Traditionally the ancestral guardians of the land belonged to the soil and In Africa context, Christ is both guardian and the soil itself. New conceptions of Christ's lordship and his salvation of all creation can develop from this essentially African express of his pervading presence in the cosmos.