기독교교육논총 (Journal of Christian Education in Korea)

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  • Pages.81-102
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  • 2021
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  • 1229-781X(pISSN)
한국기독교교육학회 (The Korean Society of Christian Religious Education)
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후기구조주의 여성 신학과 기독교교육

Poststructural Feminist Theology and Christian Education

  • 투고 : 2021.02.08
  • 심사 : 2021.03.29
  • 발행 : 2021.03.30
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남성 중심적인 전통적 신학은 교회 내의 성차별과 불공정한 위계제도를 바로잡기보다는 오히려 정당화하는데 일조한 바 있다. 가부장적인 문화의 영향을 받은 기독교교육 역시 억압적인 체제를 유지하는 데 종종 남용되었다. 여성신학자 레베카 춉(Rebecca Chop)은 현대의 서구 문화가 자기애적(narcissistic)이고 자기준거적(self-referentiality)인 이기주의를 강화하면서, 강자의 편에 서서 사회에서 소외된 주변인들을 더욱 침묵하도록 종용해왔다고 주장한다. 춉에 따르면, 기독교의 역할과 본질, 그리고 선교의 핵심은 진리와 자유의 말씀을 통해 억눌리고 갇힌자들에게 해방의 복음을 선포하고 세상을 변혁하는 데 있다. 춉의 후기구조주의적 여성신학은 언어, 문화, 정치 내에 스며들어 있는 차별, 편견, 배타성을 비판적으로 성찰하여 사회-상징적(socio-symbolic) 질서(order)를 개혁하며, 이를 통해 궁극적으로 정의와 평등을 실현하는 사회변혁을 도모한다. 본 연구는 먼저 아시아-아메리칸(Asian-American) 부부와의 인터뷰를 개략적으로 소개하고, 그들과의 인터뷰 내용을 분석하여 사회에 편만한 차별적이고 억압적인 남성중심적 헤게모니를 살펴본다. 한 부부의 인터뷰를 통해 일반화된 사회이론을 제시할 수는 없지만, 이는 여성에 대한 편견과 배타성을 영속화시키는 잠재적 메세지와 헤게모니를 드러내는 좋은 예가 될 것이며, 이 사례를 통해 왜곡된 관계를 회복하고와 모든 인간의 존엄성을 존중하는 기독교교육의 역할을 성찰해 볼 수 있을 것이다. 필자는 해방적 변혁을 위한 기독교교육은 건설적인 개입을 통해 소외되고 억압된 자들의 의식화와 주관성을 회복하도록 돕고, 해방의 말씀선포를 통해 지금까지 배제되어왔던 주변인들이 사회 변혁을 위한 실천에 적극적으로 참여하도록 격려해야 한다고 주장한다.

In church tradition, cultural misappropriation has often legitimized unjust hierarchy rather than to challenge it. Under the rubric of culturalism, Christian Education has served to justify the oppressive system and maintain status quo as well. A feminist theologian, Rebecca Chopp argues that the contemporary Western culture has intensified narcissistic individualism and self-referentiality and has supported the powerful, while forced the marginalized to be silent. Chopp insists that the role, nature, and mission of Christianity is to provide Word and words of emancipatory transformation. She advocates poststructural feminist theology and aims at renewal of the socio-symbolic order in society by criticizing assumptions underneath language, culture and politics. In this study, we will review the interview with an Asian-American couple and disclose the underlying assumptions and hegemony which have contributed to maintain the male domineering system. I suggest that Christian education for emancipatory transformation should encourage the oppressed women to reflect critically the existing order and to restore their own voice through constructive intervention facilitating "plurivociy" and "problem-posing" dialogue. Proclaimation of transformative Word can empower the marginalized people to revision the world alternatives to monotheistic patriarchal modernism.

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