Practicing Theology: Being Faced with the Other

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Practicing theology as the transformative pedagogy enables religious communities to integrate their activism for social transformation with their theological life. In this study, Emmanuel Levinas’ priority on ethical relationships with others, as well as his ethical language of saying, provides a religious community with a theological tool that enables the community to relate to social issues, such as poverty and ecology through its service. Practicing theology attempts to do theology by acting out Christian truths on behalf of “others” in a larger society. This experience of “others” instigates a theological process by enabling participants to be conscious of distortions in social, economic, and political injustice and, thus, to transform them through communal theological reflections and responsible corporate social actions. The embedded term “Practicing” is explained as the three different yet related methods of doing theology: “doing,” “being faced,” and “saying, and then its five actual movements are introduced.

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