테크닉 사회에서의 성서교육

Biblical education in technological society

오늘의 교회교육 현장에서 디지털 교육 컨텐츠를 개발해야 한다는 요구가 드높다. 이에 부응하기 위해서는 테크닉에 대한 신학적 그리고 교육적 관점의 정립 하에 하이퍼 커뮤니케이션의 원리가 접목된 교육과정을 디자인할 필요가 있다. IT 강국인 우리나라에서 양방향 형식으로 대화와 나눔이 가능하고, 과정 추론적이고 참여적이라는 디지털 환경의 특성에 기초한 현대교회의 교육의 변화가 기대된다. 넘쳐나는 멀티미디어 매체들, 그것들을 통해 유입되는 폭력이나 성적자극 등 잘못된 가치관들이 기독교적 세계관에 거세게 도전한다. 디지털 공해라고 할 수 있는 비인간화의 가능성, 가상공간과 실제적 삶과의 불균형, 정보의 질적인 저하와 불확실성의 문제들이 아직 남아있다. 자칫 신앙을 파괴하는 위험 요소로서, 기술 그 자체를 신화화하는 현대인의 가치관이 만연해 있기도 하다. 이렇게 현대인이 사는 테크닉의 사회는 다른 어느 때보다도 우리에게 성서를 읽는 식별력을 요청한다.

This study concerns about the paradigm shift that transmission and interpretation of Gospel are converted in the educational environment. First of all, one perspective of this study of Christian education about technic is built upon the ethical reflect of J. Ellul and theological methodology of G. Vahanian. Next, this study anticipates the possibility of new biblical educational style in today’s technological society by reviewing the characteristic of hypercommunication and method of human being’s acknowledgement of truth in cyber culture. Ellul does not view technic as a neutral although technic was regarded as a simple tool in traditional ethical perspective. Ellul questions about human being in the technical system. He worries about the challenge of technical autonomy which could conditionalize human and environment and cause social, political, and economical change. Therefore he presents the necessity of ethic for new technological society. Technic is always based on desacralisation breaking imagination and is ethic emphasizing liberty of human who could remove unlimited power of technic. On the one hand, Vahanian regards technic as an utopia. He points out that human being made a mistake understanding God’s transcendence in the salvational perspective rather than eschatological vision related to utopianism and the reality of human. Therefore now he contends that the frame of understanding of religion is to be changed from myth to technique. He prospects that the future of technique would require renovation of the church. The technological society concerns more about the problem of technique that popularize the truth rather than contents and understanding of truth. The concept of truth in cyber culture has the role of offering information about continual change of direction as the accumulated knowledge about various interpretation and understands human being in the middle of unfolding meaning in a new context. In this meaning, today, biblical education requests that understanding of the truth and true nature of human pursued in cyber culture should be Christianity. The interpretation of biblical text is decided in accordance to how individual contacts in cyber culture. The text is not regarded as unchanging unity but is understood as changeable possibility which could be changed voluntarily based on various relations because hypercommunication offers authority over translation, not text itself. The meaning of canons about Canon has become changed due to the characteristic of hypertext proliferating text. Now, canons creates context which original text is begun and is written by discerning the context. Many authors are involved in biblical text. Critical self­consciousness needs to be emerged in the electronic writing environment of this hypermedia. It should not be disregarded that peculiar imagination and concern of reader and meaning­making are an important in hypertext. It is requested that identification of biblical text could ensure the position of hermeneutics by accepting the characteristic of hypercommunication. In this respect we could find that Christian education has a responsibility guiding theology into lead readers’ interpretation. And also presenting abundant learning experience using virtual reality needs to be considered in biblical education.