Political Panentheism for a Liberative Logic of Faith in Postmodern Era

This paper suggests a type of panentheism, political panentheism, which can transmit the legacy of Korean minjung theology viable in our postmodern era. Although minjung theology, which was very prosperous in 1970’s and 1980’s in the Korean theological context, has a deep wisdom in its religiosity and social practicality, it has been losing its influence on Korean Christianity in various reasons. Still, the teachings of minjung theology are highly needed for the rescue of Christian faith from the crisis, a crisis that Christian faith cannot witness to the God of salvation especially for the people in marginalization. For this task, minjung theology demands a reformulation of its legacy which can work in the changed situation today. This reformulation is to reinterpret its ideas in the theological background of panentheism.