[연구논문] 마태오 릿치와 탁사 최병헌의 보유론(補儒論)적 기독교 이해의 차이와 한계

This is a comparative study between two theologians, M Ricci' s and Choi Byunghun' s(崔炳憲).understanding of Confucianism. M. Ricci was the first Catholic missionary in China and wrote the famous book 『天主實義』. In this book, M. Ricci brought his positive interpretation of classicai Confucianism in the point of Catholic theology. For him, Catholic 天主 is not different from Confucian 上帝. Choi Byunghun wrote the book 『萬宗一巒』 as the first theologian in Korea. In this book he also evaluated positively the Confucianism. He tried to understand Christian truth based on his Confucian experience. He said. "東洋之天卽西洋之天", because he believed that all religions have almost the same taste. In addition to this, these two thinkers agreed with each other in the point that Christian truth will accomplish the Confucianism(補儒論). However, they were different in the way to reach these common result. As a Catholic missionary M. Ricci used the framework of thomistic natural theology in order to read Confucian Texts. But the protestant pastor, Choi Byunghun started to make dialogue in terms of Christology. In fact, 『天主實義』 had not reference to Christology. In this artic1e I will try to show that Choi's attempt will be more sustainable for the Confucian-christian dialogue. However, I also will criticize Choi's 補儒論 and point out the limitation of his understanding of Neoconfucianism. It is the reason that I believe the cosmology of Neo-confucianism can make an appeal for a paradigm change of Christian theology.