달라서 문제가 아니라 멀어서 문제다 : 타자에 관한 신학적 인간학

Not Difference, but Distance: Theological Anthropology on the Other

It is not the matter of difference, but the matter of distance. The real problem with the other is not in difference but in distance. The history of war is the development of shooting range. We do not see the face of the other. The others become anonymous enemies. The longer distance, the more casualties. If your relationship isn’t good enough, you’re not close enough. The other is not the object to be judged or grasped, but the eternal mystery which is only revealed by encountering and serving with the open ego. The face-to-face encounter ultimately gives rise to profess the absolute other God. If the Otherness is understood more positively, it is the joy of becoming close to the other who is approaching from a distance. Conversely it is also the delight of finding the true ego through getting near to the mystical otherness.