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The purpose of this article is to establish a desirable Christology in the Korean context. In this article, I studied Christology in the context of both western theology and Latin American liberation theology. For this comparative study, I selected Paul Tillich from the context of western theologians and Leonardo Boff from the context of liberation theologians. More specifically, I compared the existential Christology of Paul Tillich with the liberation Christology of Leonardo Boff. Tillich’s Christology has similarities and some differences with Boff’s Christology. One can learn from and influence on the other. Both start from human situation. In this sense their study of Christology can be called ‘Christology from below.’ However, Tillich place an emphasis on the human existential situation while Boff on the social, political, and economic situation. Tillich understands Jesus Christ as the New Being in a existential dimension of human being while Boff understands Jesus Christ as the liberator in a total dimension of human being. In my opinion, Boff’s Christology is more persuasive to the modern situation than Tillich’s, because it is impossible to grasp the complicated situations of human being today from the existentialist perspective. In conclusion, there is a need of mutual dialogue and learning from two Christologies in a more active way. That is, Tillich’s Christology can learn a socio–historical perspective from Boff’s. On the contrary, Boff’s Christology can learn a systematic methodology of theology from Tillich’s. Furthermore, both have to be reinterpreted and developed through the dialogue of other contextualized theologies in a non Western world. This article also suggested many challenges which must be undertaken. These challenges include the need for more systematic research to the problems of the traditional Christologies in connection with the context on Korean church. I hope the comparative study performed in this article will contribute to the formulation of Korean Christology.
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Paul Tillich, Leonardo Boff, Christology, New Being, Liberator
