The existing perspectives claims that there is a static relations between Gospel and Culture. That is, biblical text is constant and is the subject of hermeneutics. Besides, context acts passively as the object of hermeneutics. However, context is the totality of human life's creative selfunderstanding. It means Sitz im Leben which is developed in political, economic, social and cultural sphere. Therefore, it also provides a dynamic hermeneutics of the text. Finally, on the one hand the text illuminates the context, on the other hand the context illuminates the text. The fact that both Text and Context have hermeneutical functions on illuminating each other makes us face both the problems of Truth and humanics. Every one can hear the Good News only in his/her own culturally conditioned context. Therefore, any intercultural understanding prerequisites common hearing. Only when we are together, we can understand the biblical truth in impartial and more complete manner. There must neither be superiority nor inferiority over others where the biblical text is being heard and understood together crossculturally, instead there must be reciprocal dependence with one another. The postmodern intercultural ecumenical missiological hermeneutics aims at realization of the koinonia in diversity, pursuing reciprocal complement and learning through the newly understanding of the Gospel being interpreted in each culture. Thus, the worldwide churches becomes not only a hermeneutical community, but also it becomes a learning, supporting, and celebrating community. The church is the participatory subject and agent of mission of God, but not the sole recipient of Gospel. We need newly interpreted Gospel by crosscultural process. Actually, the authentic subject of the postmodern intercultural ecumenical missiological hermeneutics is the Holy Spirit. Under the free and sovereign work of the Holy Spirit, the church cannot absolutize its own truth claim. Rather, it has to be open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit's leading the church from partial understanding to a fuller understanding of the truth. In this regard, mission is not just something the church is doing alone, but it is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit which precedes the church's involvement in missio Dei. The church has to spread this Gospel with words and life. The proclamation and presence go together in mission. Only through the missionary renewal which unites the missionary proclamation and the missionary presence, the church can accomplish mission work more faithfully in the world. Therefore, both western and oriental churches, and all other churches of the world as well need each other.

• 강아람(장로회신학대학교, 선교학) | Ahram Kang