마크 C. 테일러(Mark C. Taylor)의 ‘Erring’ 개념에 대한 선교학적 의미 - 『Erring』 속 성서 본문 세 가지를 중심으로 -

Abstract

This article is about the concept of “Erring”, articulated in Marck C. Taylor’s most influential book, Erring: A Postmodern A/Theology. The article argues that the concept of Erring can be meaningfully influential in shaping current mission paradigms required for change in the secular world. Erring, as introduced in A/Theology, is explained to be an important theological concept for both those who are spiritual atheists and dissatisfied theists. Therefore, this article seeks to connect the concept of Erring and missiology in order to go beyond the ontological tradition that Christianity has been deeply based upon. This article recaptures and reconstructs the concept of Erring by using three bible passages in Taylor’s writing which are Mark 4:3-9 (The Parable of the Sower), Luke 24:13-35 (The Walk to Emmaus) and the Exodus story. Disappearing subjectivity, the recognition of betweenness, marginality, divine aspects of rootlessness and wandering that can open unexpected and undetermined elements of life, such as grace, are explained. This article concludes philosophically that mission as a carnival of spontaneous and unintentional joyfulness, as the concept of Erring prescribes, should be considered for a new paradigm of missiology.