변선환 신학의 세 가지 특징과 그 의의 - 그의 ‘신론’을 중심으로

The Three Features and Meanings of Theology of Byun Sun-Hwan: Focusing on His ‘the Doctrine of God’

Every theology is born in the setting of its own time and space. However, the Korean theological circle has not yet sufficiently produced its theological outcomes reflecting properly its own time and space. In this circumstance Byun Sun-Hwan is a representative Korean theologian who endeavored to unfold his own theolgy. The fact that his theolgy is called “the theology of religious liberation” means that he inherits critically religious theology and Minjung theology. This essay examined his theological characteristics centering on his four papers which contain ‘the doctrine of God’ and explored what it means to current Korean theological circles. It is the main point of this essay that his theology contains contemporary modernity, indigenous subjectivity, and universality of Minjung. Finally it is proposed that this characteristic can be not only a signpost for the Indigenous Theology or the Korean theology but also the direction which the theology should aim for