A Conversation with Minjung Messiah and Derrida’s Messianic

The idea of “minjung messiah” has been the hottest issue in the history of minjung theology because the idea is inharmonious with the doctrine of Christology based on the traditional image of God who is transcendent. The aim of this paper is to enlarge my understanding about minjung messiah. In connection with this issue, I wish to address Derrida’s messianic. In traditional theology, the notion of the messianism is premised on the final judgment at the end of the world in the future. But both Derrida and minjung theology think differently from traditional theology on the matter of the messianic. Namely, for Derrida and minjung theology commitment to the messiancity is the necessary context for understanding of God. God is knowable only by making the truth by changing the world. It means that the messianic is not conceived but entered into the world through a certain praxical engagement. A major concern of them is the relationship between the present situation and the messianic event. This collaboration is intended to promote a legitimate messianic for the new era called as globalization.