한국교회 갱신과 기독교교육의 과제

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The slogan of religious reformation that the reformed church should keep reforming itself(ecclesia samper reformanda) not only was essential to the period of religious reformation, but also has been useful throughtout the whole history of Christinaity. The modern church of our age also has several problems so that the church can be renewed. Some people try to find out some solutions to those problems in the essential area of the church such as Liturgia, Didache, Koinonia, Diakonia, etc., and others in the secondary area of the church like organization and order. What does it mean by the slogan that the church of our age should be changed? This paper is going to analyze critically what the problems of Korean churches are, and try to suggest what should be taught or which course should be taken so that our modem church can be changed better than now. In dealing with the direction and contents of the religious education in the church in the information age I think that renewal should be made from the viewpoint of recovery. To support my thesis, I prove the inevitability of the church renewal by clarifying theologically the meaning of the church renewal. Then I deal with the three main parts of the church education tasks, each of which consists of two categories: the essential part and the social request. For the education for spiritual growth, the church should provide faith education, try to recover relationships, and give a religious education to turn Christians as faithful disciples. For the community education, the church should give practical education(Praxis Education) and suggest specific methodology for the community education. For information education, the church should teach clearly the objects of knowledge and improve the curriculum. To avoid any misunderstanding, I clarify that my intention of this paper tries to suggest a fundamental direction and contents for the church education for the glory of God's Kingdom, never to criticise the present system or situations of Korean churches, nor to suggest any specific educational methodology.