"Incontextualization"としての伝道

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This essay attempts to grasp the Christian mission as an act of "incontextualization." George Lindbeck understands "intratextuality" as an essential characteristic of a religion. It is the nature of a religion to describe everything as within, i.e., as abele to be interpreted by, the canon of the concerned religion. When we apply this concept to the mission of a religion, we can say that mission means to incorporate all the things, especially different religious teachings and different cultural customs, of the people as the object of the mission into the context of the story of the cannon and to interpret them anew. The author concludes that taking this position leads the Christian mission to cast away its hitherto dogmatic, exclusivistic claim of the absolutness of its own religion, to ensure its loyalty in a new sense to its own religion, and, on the other hand, to secure its pliable attitude toward the actual existence of different religions and cultures. It is ture that the actual work of incontextualization is very hard, but the author believes that the subject of mission as incontextualization ought to be convinced of all-embracing-ness of the canon of its religion and ought to make a metaphorical sense of all the things of the people as the object of the mission.
聖学院大学の論文
1994-01-20