The Theology of Change in the Context of Derridean Deconstruction and Postmodernity

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The Theology of Change is a new constructive theology which is based on the East Asian world view represented by the Book of Changes. This theology was originally written by Korean American theologian Jung Young Lee. I want to use this term to designate an East Asian theological construction for a new theology toward World Christianity in the postmodern situation. The I Ching has been the basic grammar of East Asian culture for most areas such as art, philosophy, sciences, medicine, architecture and so on. Therefore, the Theology of Change is not only a sort of indigenous theology but also an alternative theology for World Christianity in the postmodern age.
Jung Young Lee finds a very useful tool for constructing East Asian theology in the I Ching. I want to explore the relationship of the Theology of Change with Derridean deconstruction and textuality. Différance is not far away from the change in the I Ching. Rather they are very close and interrelated. Yin-yang is the cosmological textual movement which is very close to Derridean textual movement. Kua (trigram) is the manifestation of textual movement of yin and yang. The I Ching is clearly explained by Derridean deconstruction and construction. Différance is the movement of the Change from the perspective of the Theology of Change.
In this kind of textual and cosmological movement, a new theology is emerging as the aesthetics of the void in art work. The Theology of Change is transformed from ontological theology toward aesthetical theology in an East Asian worldview. God is renewed from the transcendent being to the immanent nonbeing. Theology is more inclined to cosmos and creation rather than history and salvation, which opens a new way toward ecumenism and ecology. That is, the Theology of Change is positioned as a construction in the age of deconstruction.

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