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생명의 존엄성 : 인간배아 줄기세포 연구 논쟁에 관한 신학적 고찰
김흡영 연세대학교 신과대학 2006 신학논단 Vol.43 No.-
The human embryonic stem cell debates since the beginning have been rhetorical, full of gene-hype. However, these debates imply serious theological and political hermeneutics in the definition of human life, the dignity of life, respect, and women. It also demands a reassessment of the Western Christian anthropology of human personhood (person as innate, person as relational, and person as proleptic). From the East Asian theological perspective, however, the dignity of life implies the imperative for a life to realize itself to the fullest end of what it ought to be. This involves the diligent practice of sanctification and self-cultivation in mindfulness (or respect). A researcher in a laboratory is also a human person who needs to engage in this rigorous practice of mindfulness. This may be the prerequisite to exercise one’s freedom to help other forms of life accomplish their imperative for self-realization. But this denotes not so much a self-defined created co-creator self-consciously stretching and enabling to create techno-sapiens or the superhuman cyborg, as a humble cosmic co-sojourner participating in the great transformative movement of theanthropocosmic trajectory, i.e., the Tao (the Way). The sanctity of life from an East Asian Christian perspective means a fulfillment and embodiment of the proleptic Tao (道), in its own freedom of life (wu-wei 無爲). After all, both science and religion are taos for life, the great openness for cosmic vitality (saeng-myeong 生命).
김흡영 한국민중신학회 2023 Madang: Journal of Contextual Theology Vol.- No.39
This article explores into Kim Yong-bok’s final reflections on Minjung Theology in dialogue with Theo-Dao, a theology of Dao. Kim’s groundbreaking assertion that Minjung Theology is a sociobiography of Minjung broadens the cosmological Zoegraphy (the narrative of life) beyond historical constraints. It matures into a sapiential Zoesophia (Wisdom of Life), envisioning a Seontopia (East Asian Utopia). Minjung Theology prompts preparation for the impending ultra-technological civilization, characterized by the burgeoning evolution of artificial intelligence, marking a stride toward the future. Kim’s profound insights into Seontopian Zoesophia could serve as foundational pillars for the revival of Minjung Theology in the Anthropocene era of technological civilization. Furthermore, it extends an invitation to future theologians and scholars of religion to perpetuate this line of inquiry.
Death and Immortality: Biological and East Asian Religious Reflections on Transhumanism
김흡영,허균 한국민중신학회 2017 Madang: Journal of Contextual Theology Vol.0 No.28
The transhumanist notion of digital immortality (mind-uploading) is a misnomer and conceptually invalid, because it is based on a flawed presupposition of binary distinction between life and death. The multifaceted nature of death involving single cells, multicellular organisms, and human brains shows that the process of death plays a crucial role in sustaining life. Immortality without death pursued by transhumanists is an erroneous concept not supported by biological appraisal of death. East Asian religions and theology generally agree with this claim. Thus, we further postulate that death is not only an integral part of life but also a gracious gift that enables a life to grow into its higher domain; namely, mortality is the presupposition of an elevated life and so eventually immortality.