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| The Confucian roots of the fundamentalist ethos in the Korean Conservative Presbyterian Church | ||
| 作者 | Chu, Weon-yeol (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Dissertation Abstracts International |
| 卷期 | v.65 n.10 Section A |
| 出版日期 | 2004 |
| 出版者 | ProQuest LLC |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.proquest.com/ |
| 出版地 | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | 博士 |
| 校院名稱 | Boston University |
| 系所名稱 | School of Theology |
| 指導教授 | Chung, Chai-sik |
| 畢業年度 | 2004 |
| 附註項 | 348p |
| 關鍵詞 | Confucian; Fundamentalist; Ethos; Korean Conservative Presbyterian |
| 摘要 | This study articulates the Confucian roots of the sectarian and fundamentalist ethos of social indifference in the Korean Conservative Presbyterian Church (hereafter KCPC). Previous studies concerning the social indifference of the KCPC have mainly sought to uncover various theological, historical, and political causal factors for this attitude. This work by contrast, examines the elusive cultural roots of this social indifference, since a person's social action orientation is reflexively determined by cultural tradition, in this case including Korean Confucian tradition. Following the introduction (Chapter 1), Chapter 2 elaborates a theoretical interpretation of Confucianism that demonstrates the potential for Confucianism to foster a hierarchical, conservative, and even sectarian stance toward the world. This interpretive stance is based on Max Weber's thesis that Confucianism is a conservative social ethic lacking any transcendence leverage to transform the world, and Herbert Fingarette's explanation of how Confucians often explicate the person not as an autonomous social agent, but as a social conformist. Chapter 3 defends the hypothesis that Chinese Neo-Confucianism is more preoccupied with the problem of self-cultivation than with social concern and engagement and, hence, when given a fundamentalist interpretation, becomes socially indifferent. Four case studies of Korean fundamentalist Neo-Confucianism are used to defend this hypothesis: Cho˘ng To-jo˘n's doctrinal refutation of Buddhism; Yi T'oegye's exclusive position that only Chu Hsi Learning is orthodox; Song Si-yo˘l's dogmatism in a famous ritual controversy; and Yi Hang-no's fundamentalism in Cho˘ksa wijo˘ng (Rejecting Heterodoxy and Defending Orthodoxy). Chapter 4 defends the argument that the Korean Presbyterian fundamentalist Hyung Nong Park's militant defense of old Calvinist orthodoxy is a strategy developed to reject new theologies as heterodoxies based on a fusion of Neo-Confucian cultural patterns with conservative Christian theology. Park's leading role in major Presbyterian schisms supports the notion of the elective affinities between the claim of orthodoxy and factional interests. This work locates the cultural roots of the sectarian and fundamentalist ethos of the KCPC in Confucian social conservatism and Korean Neo-Confucian fundamentalism. Underlying this work is a social ethical assumption that the KCPC must overcome the fundamentalist mentality in order to be a true heir of Reformed Calvinism. |
| ISBN | 0496098098; 9780496098095 |
| 點閱次數 | 740 |
| 建檔日期 | 2005.09.23 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.03.23 |
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