레비나스 현상학을 통한 존 웨슬리 성결론의 타자성 연구 ― ‘그리스도인의 완전’을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper presents the usefulness of Levinas's Phenome- nology of the Otherness in expressing the Otherness of John Wesley's Sanctification Theory. In order to know Levinas' pheno- menology, the writer first looks at the general character- istics of phenomenology. It is ‘intentionality’, which is the most important concept in Husserl's thought, who can be considered to be the founder of phenomenology. In Levinas, this intentionality appears to be toward the Other, and the subject cannot exist alone without an object(the Other). Above all, the Others encountered in the world of elements, especially in ‘human’, and they have the Otherness that cannot be reduced to that of the subject. As such, Levinas asserts the Otherness of the Other as opposed to Totality, which is inter- preted as the subject and restored. After all, this Otherness becomes an important methodology in understanding Wesley's Sanctification Theory in particular. In understanding sanctification that represents Holiness, the Otherness of God, it is necessary to have a new understanding of Sanctification Theory from God, not from anthropocentrism. If you approach this ‘Sanctification’ only through anthropocentrism or psychologicalism, or literalistic, you may lose the true meaning of holiness and its Otherness. Wesley also criticizes the misunderstanding of 'Sanctification' at the time, and describes in detail what 'Sanctification' is in the true sense in his sermon “Christian Perfection.” The writer reveals that the meaning of the word 'Perfection' in the characteristics of sanctification claimed by Wesley is completely different from the meaning understood from the level of anthropocentrism, and that the perfection only made possible by the perfect indwelling of Christ. Also, in order to properly understand sanctification, a new approach, ‘New Testament Perspective’ (Otherness), not ‘Old Testament Perspective,’ is needed, which is sanctification made possible through faith in Christ who has been completed eschatologically. The Writer reveals the Otherness characteristic in Wesley's Sanctification Theory through this study, and presents the excellence of Levinas' Phenomenology in effectively expre- ssing the Otherness.