‘다원주의’는 현대 미술을 비롯해 문화 현상의 특성을 지칭하는 용어 이다. 현대 미술이 ‘다원주의’적 특성으로 설명되는 이유는 획일화를 지 양하고, 다양화의 경향으로 변모되고 있다는 것을 의미한다. 따라서 ‘다 원주의’ 시대의 미술은 동서 간의 차이를 비롯해 장르들 간의 구분, 그리 고 전문성에 기초한 예술 범주들 간의 구분이 모호해지고, 해체되는 상 황을 나타내는 통합적 성격의 용어라고 하겠다. 이 논의는 현대 미술의 다원화 현상으로 관찰되는 여러 쟁점들과 그 쟁점의 이면에 잠재되어 있는 문제들을 검토하는데 목적이 있다. 그렇다 고 해서 특정한 결과를 추출하기 위한 시도는 아니며, 미술계나 문화계, 그리고 사회 전체가 함께 고민해 볼 필요가 있는 문제들을 제시하고자 함이다. 이러한 문제의 초점은 국제화로 일컬어지는 요즘의 현대 미술에 서 간취되는 동서 미술 간의 문제, 그리고 첨단 정보통신시대에 미술에 서 나타나는 문제들을 검토하고 긍정적 미래에 대한 제안에 있음을 밝혀 두고자 한다.

The present study is an investigation of young Korean Protestants’ views of other faiths and how they understand mission and evangelism based on those views. The empirical research shows that a considerable number of young Korean Christians have now embraced pluralistic viewpoint concerning other religions, along with the postmodern relativistic perspective about truth claims. This research concludes that both perspectives weaken the motive of traditional Christian evangelism and mission toward people of other faiths. The empirical research also indicates the urgency to recognize pluralistic and relativistic tendencies among young Korean Protestants in the history of the Korean Protestant Church. In other words, the emerging pluralistic and postmodern viewpoint, which is gaining popularity among young Koreans, is beginning to compete with the dominant traditional Korean Protestant exclusivistic theology of religions. Thus, we are beginning to see the competition between exclusivism and pluralism or relativism (religious and postmodern). An important missional issue regarding exclusivism and pluralism is that both can easily fail to engage people of other faiths. While the exclusivists close their mind and try not to listen to people of other faiths, the pluralists think it unnecessary to share the Christian faith. As a result they both have that the tendency to avoid engaging with the ‘other,’ that is, people of other faiths. In response, the researcher suggests “dialogical evangelism,” with the intention to escape the missional dangers post by both exclusivism and pluralism, and to encourage Christians to engage the ‘others’ in dialogue and love for evangelism. Having taken other faiths into consideration since the 1910 Edinburgh Conference of the World Missionary Conference, many mission thinkers have become involved in how to do missions toward people of other faiths. The dialogical approach to people of other faiths has proved to be a desirable way of doing missions. On the other hand, evangelicals have argued that its ultimate goal should be evangelism. Therefore, integrating the strengths of these two approaches, for the Korean Protestant Church and the new generation of Christians, the researcher suggests dialogical evangelism as the most viable approach to people of other faiths.