차이의 인정 속의 공존: 독일 개신교총회(EKD)의 정책에 반영되어 있는 이슬람 문제 인식

Abstract

This study deals with the question, how the christianity cope with the uprising of the islamic power in the society. Regarding this question, it is easy to recognize that more people show their growing interest to the dormant conflict between the two religions, especially since the beginning of the 21th Century of the western world. Confronting the more strengthened influx of the islamic wave, it is questioned how the christianity could achieve a peaceful coexistence, diminishing the potential conflict. To solve this problem, this paper pays attention to the stance of the theologians from the two important christian regions: One is that of the stance of american theologians, another is that of position of the congregation of german protestant church, namely EKD. Supposedly, owing to their intention for the atonement of results from foreign policies of the government, many american theologians, for example, M. Volf asserts that there exists strong sameness between christianity and islamic culture. They insist that the two religions have virtually the same foundation, worshipping the same God, therefore they could corporate each other, making a reconcilation. However, it is questionable whether we could accept this stance without consideration. Comparing to this case, it could be helpful for us to look into the case of german churchy which has contributed to the social integration more than 50 years. Since the beginning of the 21th Century, EKD published white papers in order to deal with the problem of social integration, based on the principle of ‘unity in the diversity’. According to their argument, recognition of differences is more important than attempt to accomplish a mere identification. Meanwhile, they put emphasis on the value of their own tradition, the worth of christianity, while they recognize differences of religious traditions of other religions and confessions. To make its stance in a religious plural situation as Korea, the Korean church could attain a good hint from the stance of german church. Consequently, this paper makes a question how korean christianity could establish a policy confronting the influx of the islamic powers in future society.