이슬람의 세계화와 기독교의 선교적 대응

Globalization of Islam and Missionary Encounter of Christianity

This paper began by recognizing the critical issue that the church face the challenge of Islamic fundamentalism today. Today, the whole world is facing a global war situation between the United States and the Muslim fundamentalists. In this critical situation, questions Christian churches need to ask is how to understand this global event or flow and to rediscover the essence of the church and mission. The purpose of this paper is to review a historical development of Islamic revival movements as a reaction to the secularization and neo-liberal economic globalization led by the United States and the West, to suggest the church's self-reflection, and to examine the church's misional encounter with an attempt of globalization of the worldwide expansion of Islam. First, Globalization led by the West indicates a process that economy, politics, society, and culture is being integrated into one. In this rapid globalizing process people tend to be more sensitive to mystical things than rational and scientific. These global tendencies has been bringing the revival of conservatism, fundamentalism, mysticism, and extreme movements. In this regard, the Islamic revival movements have opposed to the Western-led globalization and secularism. The Islamic revival movement has been expressed in Jihad, the original meaning both moral and mental effort. Muslim missionaries try to spread their religion through their economic and educational activities. Second, the problem western Christianity face today is the privatization of faith, the reductionism of the gospel and the meaning of salvation. We need to be keenly aware of the causes and roots of the problems. On thing we need to rediscover is the biblical principles providing the foundations for understanding our culture. Third, on the basis of the essential dimension of the church we can suggest some mission strategies for reaching Muslim people. First of all, we need to understand our own context and the history and culture of Islam comprehensively. We should avoid a colonial mentality and patenalism in doing mission. Also, we need to concern about other movements in Islam such as Sufism and folk Islam as well as fundamental Islam. One of the most effective approach to Muslim people is contextualization of the gospel in the Muslim context. As the church face the challenge of globalization from both the West and Islamic revival movement, the task of the church is to rediscover the essence of the church, mission. Mission entirely belongs to the trinitarian God(John 20:21).