Journal of Christian Education in Korea (기독교교육논총)

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Christian Education for Sustainability

지속가능성을 위한 기독교교육

  • Yoo, Eunju (United Graduate School of Theology, Yonsei University)
  • 유은주 (연세대학교 연합신학대학원)
  • Received : 2022.11.26
  • Accepted : 2022.12.29
  • Published : 2022.12.30
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Abstract

This paper argues that Christian education for sustainability should be a spiritual education that fosters the spirituality of contentment, poverty, sharing, and justice through a critical review of the concept of "Sustainable Development" (SD), which emerged to overcome today's climate and ecological crisis. To this end, first of all, the efforts and limitations of international cooperation to overcome the deepening environmental problems will be considered. That is, economic interests have been prior to the environmental issues. When it comes to the 'Green Revolution,' there has been a huge gap between the ideal and the reality, so a sustainable society has become distant. Faced with this situation, Christian theology has been trying to build a new theological paradigm, breaking away from the limits of anthropocentric and afterlife-centered theology based on the dichotomy between the physical and the spiritual. Through such theological reflections, Christian education needs to carry out spiritual education focusing on how to deal with the problem of human greed for the restoration of the created world. In this regard, this paper presents the spirituality of contentment, poverty, sharing, and justice. For developing it, this article suggests deep theological reflection and repentance on human greed, listening to the victim's voice, moderation in consumption, investigation of alternative cases, and decisive action to reveal the truth from the victim's point of view.

연구 목적 : 본고는 오늘날의 기후환경 및 생태위기를 극복하기 위해 등장한 '지속가능발전'(SD) 개념에 대한 비판적 고찰을 통해 그것이 가진 모순을 드러내고 지속가능성을 위한 기독교교육이 자족과 청빈, 나눔과 정의의 영성을 함양하는 영성교육이 되어야 함을 주장한다. 연구 내용 및 방법 : 이를 위해 먼저 심화되는 환경문제와 이를 타개하기 위한 국제적 공조의 노력과 한계를 고찰한다. 실제로 기후환경과 관련된 국제협약들은 경제적 이익을 포기하지 못하는 강대국들의 탐욕으로 인해 제대로 실현되지 못하고 있다. 또한 '녹색혁명'의 이상과 현실 간의 차이로 인해 지속가능한 사회는 요원해졌다. 이런 상황에 직면해 기독교 신학은 그동안 인간 중심적이고 영과 육의 이원론에 근거한 내세 중심적인 고전 신학의 한계로부터 벗어나 새로운 신학적 패러다임을 구축하려고 노력하고 있다. 이런 신학적 성찰들을 통해 기독교교육은 창조 세계의 회복을 위해 본질적으로 인간의 탐욕 문제를 어떻게 다룰 것인지에 초점을 맞춰 영성교육을 수행해야 할 필요가 있다. 결론 및 제언 : 이에 본고는 자족과 청빈, 나눔과 정의의 영성의 필요성을 주장하며 이를 훈련하기 위해 인간의 탐욕에 대한 깊은 신학적 성찰과 회개, 피해자 목소리의 경청, 소비의 절제, 대안적 사례 연구, 피해자 입장에서 진실을 밝히는 결단력 있는 행동을 제안한다.

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