로잔운동에 나타나는 화해로서의 선교: 2004년 파타야 포럼과 케이프타운 서약문을 중심으로

Abstract

The paper attempts to analyze the concept of social reconciliation in the Lausanne Movement, centering in the 2004 Pattaya Forum and the 3rd Lausanne Congress in 2010. Initially, Lausanne movement emphasized the primacy of evangelism, by the beginning of the 21st century, the movement started discussing the topic of social reconciliation, which was the main agenda of the ecumenical movement. In the 2004 Pattaya Forum, the 22nd issue group discussed the topic of reconciliation. The issue group had called for more attention to this issue to other evangelicals in Lausanne movement. This group also produced the first document on the issue of reconciliation. It was the first step taken prior to the third Lausanne congress in 2010 in dealing with the concept of reconciliation. The third Lausanne congress, opened in Cape Town in 2010, marked reconciliation as one of top six main issues. The theme of reconciliation is also largely found in Part 2-B in the Cape Town Commitment. For example, the commitment explicitly states the importance of social reconciliation within racial conflicts, various violence toward human beings as well as the creation, discrimination against disabled and HIV patients. The issue of reconciliation was expanded to the relationship between humans with the creation. By adopting the concept of ‘building peace’ between various racial conflicts and violence, the concept of horizontal reconciliation became much prominent in the Cape Town Committment than before in the Lausanne movement. This new trends continued within the Lausanne Movement. The paper argues that such shift is caused mainly because of (1) change in world circumstance such as increase of violence terrorism and racial conflict; (2) the WCC’s various programs on overcoming violence (3) the more direct impact of the CWME’s 2005 conference on reconciliation; and (4) internal recognition of side effects of mere emphasis on the primacy of evangelism.