“Strangers” in the New Testament and Contemporary International Migrant Workers

• 발행기관: 한국민중신학회
• 저자명: Kyung Mi Park
• 간행물 정보: 『Madang: Journal of Contextual Theology』제33권, 33~56쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기독교신학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2020.06.30

영문 초록

Viewed sociologically, the origin of the earliest Christianity may be explained in terms of a process in which minjung(people) in the first century envisioned and experimented a new hope in the face of the Roman imperial globalization. This study examines the dynamic features of early Christianity as a movement of alternative community(s) and changes that it sought to make, against the massive wave of globalization that the Roman Empire brought to disrupt and destroy the traditional communities in villages and cities. Then, this study endeavors to consider how the early churches which defined themselves as strangers in the world embraced the weak and strangers into their communities. In conclusion, this study tries to make a brief reflection on the ethical implications that such originary experiences of the early church might bear on today’s situation of global diasporas of foreign migrant workers.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Uprooted Life and International Migrant Workers

3. Roman Imperial Globalization and the Jesus Movement as a Community Renewal Movement

4. Worldly Strangers and Communities of Fraternity and Hospitality

5. Conclusion

Bibliography

키워드

migrant workers globalization of the roman empire strangers hospitality subsistence