정교회와 개혁교회의 에큐메니컬 대화에 관한 소고 (A Study on the Ecumenical Dialogue between the Reformed Church and the Orthodox Church)

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· 발행기관 : 연세대학교 한국기독교문화연구소
· 수록지 정보 : 신학논단 / 64권 / 53 ~ 78페이지
· 저자명 : 남정우

초록

Just after the unexpected collapse of the eastern european countries,which were under the militant communism ideology, the world of the Eastern Orthodox Church newly has begun to be revealed in theology,church life and witness after a long time of concealment from world church history. In order to rightly confess the Lord Jesus Christ and to witness effectively the gospel in the contemporary world, which is rapidly changing politically, ideologically, and culturally, it will be needed to have a different perspective to investigate other churches and traditions.
Our focus is on the research about the process of theological dialogue between the Reformed church and the Eastern Orthodox Church in the context of the ecumenical movement. For this purpose, we mainly have relied on the Santiago document that the fifth ‘Faith and Order Committee’ produced in 1993: entitled “Towards Koinonia in Faith, Life and Witness.”The Reformed Church that originated in the reform movement of Switzerland during the 16th century has developed into the Reformed Church, the Presbyterian Church, the Congregational Church and the Evangelical Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church, which has strictly kept the creeds and church liturgy decided through the 7 ancient ecumenical church councils, is often called the Greek Orthodox Church because of its historical and geographical background in relation to the eastern Roman empire, or Byzantium. The Reformed Church that is almost absolutely dependent on the scriptures. The Eastern Orthodox Church is almost absolutely dependent on the resolutions of the seven early ecumenical church councils.
We have analyzed the process of contemporary theological dialogue between the Reformed Church and the Orthodox Church in two dimensions of three main directives of the Santiago document, because there was not any formal theological dialogue between them on the ecumenical agenda ‘JPIC’.
First, in regard to faith, we could find (=have discovered) out the agreement statements in the Trinity and the Christology that was issued cooperatively as a result of discussion and interpretation by the two churches on the Nicene-Constantinople Creed(A. D. 381). From this we know that the Reformed Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church have confessed the same content of Christian faith. We are brothers and sisters who have confessed the same Father, Son, and the Spirit. Through this same confession, we could build a basic foundation for not only a common church life but also a common witness.
Second, as to church life we discovered differences and commonalities through analysis of the responses of each church to the BEM(Baptism,Eucharist, Ministry) text and of ‘Membership and Incorporation into the Body of Christ-COMMON STATEMENT’. Especially in ministry, we pointed out that we have a potential to disagree and to struggle, but at the same time, we have a potential to find more agreement through a deeper investigation in the fathers’s tradition suggested by the Orthodox Church and the mutual recognition of the ministry by reestimating the importance of the episcopate as it pertains to unity of the church, both visibly and invisibly.
Dialogue itself is not the end but the beginning of an ongoing process that will require more effort to improve koinonia and common witness. The unity of church to which we are called is koinonia- given and expressed in the common confession of the apostolic faith: a common sacramental life entered by the one baptism and celebrated together in one eucharistic fellowship, a common life in which members and ministers are mutually recognized and reconciled, and a common witness to the gospel of God’s grace to all people and serving the whole creation.

영어초록

Just after the unexpected collapse of the eastern european countries,which were under the militant communism ideology, the world of the Eastern Orthodox Church newly has begun to be revealed in theology,church life and witness after a long time of concealment from world church history. In order to rightly confess the Lord Jesus Christ and to witness effectively the gospel in the contemporary world, which is rapidly changing politically, ideologically, and culturally, it will be needed to have a different perspective to investigate other churches and traditions.
Our focus is on the research about the process of theological dialogue between the Reformed church and the Eastern Orthodox Church in the context of the ecumenical movement. For this purpose, we mainly have relied on the Santiago document that the fifth ‘Faith and Order Committee’ produced in 1993: entitled “Towards Koinonia in Faith, Life and Witness.”The Reformed Church that originated in the reform movement of Switzerland during the 16th century has developed into the Reformed Church, the Presbyterian Church, the Congregational Church and the Evangelical Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church, which has strictly kept the creeds and church liturgy decided through the 7 ancient ecumenical church councils, is often called the Greek Orthodox Church because of its historical and geographical background in relation to the eastern Roman empire, or Byzantium. The Reformed Church that is almost absolutely dependent on the scriptures. The Eastern Orthodox Church is almost absolutely dependent on the resolutions of the seven early ecumenical church councils.
We have analyzed the process of contemporary theological dialogue between the Reformed Church and the Orthodox Church in two dimensions of three main directives of the Santiago document, because there was not any formal theological dialogue between them on the ecumenical agenda ‘JPIC’.
First, in regard to faith, we could find (=have discovered) out the agreement statements in the Trinity and the Christology that was issued cooperatively as a result of discussion and interpretation by the two churches on the Nicene-Constantinople Creed(A. D. 381). From this we know that the Reformed Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church have confessed the same content of Christian faith. We are brothers and sisters who have confessed the same Father, Son, and the Spirit. Through this same confession, we could build a basic foundation for not only a common church life but also a common witness.
Second, as to church life we discovered differences and commonalities through analysis of the responses of each church to the BEM(Baptism,Eucharist, Ministry) text and of ‘Membership and Incorporation into the Body of Christ-COMMON STATEMENT’. Especially in ministry, we pointed out that we have a potential to disagree and to struggle, but at the same time, we have a potential to find more agreement through a deeper investigation in the fathers’s tradition suggested by the Orthodox Church and the mutual recognition of the ministry by reestimating the importance of the episcopate as it pertains to unity of the church, both visibly and invisibly.
Dialogue itself is not the end but the beginning of an ongoing process that will require more effort to improve koinonia and common witness. The unity of church to which we are called is koinonia- given and expressed in the common confession of the apostolic faith: a common sacramental life entered by the one baptism and celebrated together in one eucharistic fellowship, a common life in which members and ministers are mutually recognized and reconciled, and a common witness to the gospel of God’s grace to all people and serving the whole creation.

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