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The purpose of this paper is to propose church’s ethical tasks for communication with civil society of ‘Web2.0’. But, this paper does not belong to web-technology but a paper of Christian social ethics. Especially, there are some requests from civil or liberal society for church’s change and participation to civil movement in Korea. Some people rebuke church as a conservative and morally-corrupted group, others blame church as a non-communicative group with civil values of Web2.0 which pursuing bi-directional communications. In this context, the paper studies reasons of civil blames for church as moral problems and proposes some ethical tasks of church’s communicative possibility in Web2.0 era. The focuses are as follows; (1) Enhancement of church’s publicness in civil society. This is from view of ‘Public Theology’, especially Max L. Stackhouse. Faith is not of privatization but of public concerns. Church must concern with global and civil issues because God rule whole society including church and civil society. (2) Recovering of gospel identity which connected with Stanley Hauerwas’ view of ‘Ecclasial Ethics’. By letting church be the church through doing accord to Jesus narrative, Christians must become an excellent alternatives to the world which infected violence and war. These two tasks are moral conditions which requested for communication with civil value or liberal society. On these bases, (3) Christian communication with civil society of Web2.0. Church have to try again and again to apologize with enthusiasm for gospel truth to civil society. For this purpose, there would be effective ways as like ‘office of public relations’, ‘media study’, and ‘opinion leadership’, etc. In conclusion, church in civil society of Web2.0 must pursue to be a good and servant leader in morality.


The purpose of this paper is to propose church’s ethical tasks for communication with civil society of ‘Web2.0’. But, this paper does not belong to web-technology but a paper of Christian social ethics. Especially, there are some requests from civil or liberal society for church’s change and participation to civil movement in Korea. Some people rebuke church as a conservative and morally-corrupted group, others blame church as a non-communicative group with civil values of Web2.0 which pursuing bi-directional communications. In this context, the paper studies reasons of civil blames for church as moral problems and proposes some ethical tasks of church’s communicative possibility in Web2.0 era. The focuses are as follows; (1) Enhancement of church’s publicness in civil society. This is from view of ‘Public Theology’, especially Max L. Stackhouse. Faith is not of privatization but of public concerns. Church must concern with global and civil issues because God rule whole society including church and civil society. (2) Recovering of gospel identity which connected with Stanley Hauerwas’ view of ‘Ecclasial Ethics’. By letting church be the church through doing accord to Jesus narrative, Christians must become an excellent alternatives to the world which infected violence and war. These two tasks are moral conditions which requested for communication with civil value or liberal society. On these bases, (3) Christian communication with civil society of Web2.0. Church have to try again and again to apologize with enthusiasm for gospel truth to civil society. For this purpose, there would be effective ways as like ‘office of public relations’, ‘media study’, and ‘opinion leadership’, etc. In conclusion, church in civil society of Web2.0 must pursue to be a good and servant leader in morality.


이 글은 웹2.0의 시민사회에 직면한 교회의 과제를 기독교사회윤리학적 관점에서 성찰하고 대안을 모색하고자 한다. 특히, ‘소통’을 중심으로 시민사회 속에서 교회가 바꾸어야 할 것과 지켜야 할 것들에 관해 살펴보고자 한다. 웹 2.0은 인터넷 기술의 문제가 아니라 소통을 둘러싼 사회윤리의 문제이다. 소통이 사회윤리의 핵심과제로 떠오른 마당에, 과연 소통에 대한 문제의식을 바르게 가지고 있는지 점검해야 할 때이다. 이러한 맥락에서, 교회의 소통을 위해 세가지 과제를 제안하였다. (1)공공성 제고: 교회는 ‘공공’의 문제들에 대한 민감성을 보여주어야 한다. (2)정체성 확립: 교회다움을 보여줌으로써 시민사회가 따라올 수 있는 사회윤리의 제안자가 되어야 한다. (3)시민적 소통의 추구: 시민적, 문화선교적 소통을 추구해야 한다. 이러한 과제들을 기초로 삼아, 교회는 시민사회와 소통하는 데 만족할 것이 아니라 시민사회로부터 환영받고 선한 영향력을 발휘할 수 있도록 윤리적 갱신과 성숙이 필요함을 제안하였다.