기독교대학들이 기독교 정체성 유지·제고의 문제로 난항중이다. 필자는 기독교대학에서 교양필수 과목으로 성경을 가르치는데, 80% 안팎의 비기독교인 학생들을 상대로 ‘선교적 해석학’의 틀로 성경에 접근하는 방식으로 가르친 결과, 대다수의 기독교인/비기독교인 학생 들에게 비교적 긍정적 반응을 얻어냈다. 긍정적 반응으로서 그리스도인 의 경우는 교회에서 들었던 성경의 파편적 내용들을 하나의 맥으로 관통해서 보게 되어 좋았다는 평가가 가장 많았다. 비기독교인의 경우 는 성경을 처음 접하는데도 지루하지 않고 기억에 잘 남았으며, 기독교 인들을 좀 더 이해하게 되었다는 언급이 가장 많았다. 또 종교에 상관없 이 많은 수강생들이 ‘선교적 해석학’을 통해 성경을 이야기로, 메타내러 티브로 이해하게 됨으로써 성경의 거대서사 안에서 자신의 자리를 발견하게 되었다고 피력하였다. 이것이 바로 메타내러티브로서 성경의 기능이다.

Korean church nowadays is facing same situation as Missional Church appeared in the West. Korean church is corrupted inside and brought the disability and loss of trust externally due to loss of the essence of faith and lack of the suitability to the society. The fact that Korean church is confronting the worst crisis in Korean history urges us to bring appropriate solutions to recover the fundamental worth and to communicate with altered Korean society effectively. As we are to recover the identity and the suitability and to solve internal and external problems in the church, neither the present church paradigm nor the program and the pastoral methodology is the key. Korean church reached at its prime with the programs and pastoral methodology and now these are bringing the dark age upon Korean church which is darker than ever. Therefore, it is the time for Korean church to be changed in every direction. The Missional Church was resulted in developing the main theme of mission that took the half of the century in western church. It does not mean to recover Christendom and to find better principle and method to pursuit church growth but it is the movement–which started with church movement and mission recovering movement–that examines the situation that church is in seriously and studies it academically. GOCN(Gospel and Our Culture Network) has been working on Missional Church movement in the area of Missional Hermeneutic recently. Since Mission comes from the nature of God, the whole Bible should be dealt with Mission but not some specific verses. Therefore, this essay will focus on introducing Missional Hermeneutic Christopher Wright provide. This research will give an opportunity to illuminate the characteristic of Missional Church–the ethical perspective of Mission.The relationship between Mission and ethics is very close. The author insists that ethicality is the sign to distinguish the church from the secular world and it forms Mission. Ethics itself forms Mission in Missional Church as church exists as the light and the salt to the local society. Without biblical ethics, there is no biblical mission. This essay will prospect the Bible in Missional Hermeneutic and show the relationship between ethics and the aspect of election, redemption and covenant in the Israelite and church respectively. Biblical Mission needs biblical ethics. Moreover, ethics itself forms mission. Missional Church provides biblical basis for Missional Hermeneutic. Since Bible gives the right answer to the nature and the method of missional obedience, Word is the basis for church mission. The steps toward Missional Church should show the effort to examine the systems of every church throughly and biblically to be rooted and worked in serious relationship with God’s word. Missional Church movement should provide biblical basis on the nature of gospel and the essence, ministry and structure of church, In such need of these facts, this essay will provide examples to illuminate the biblical basis about Missional Church with the eyes of Missional Hermeneutic.

Is it possible to read the Bible in missional sense? Are there any proper method to study the Bible in Missiology? The Bible is very essential to Missiology. God of mission has sent the church, the koinonia he called, into the world. The basis of the commission is strictly based in the Bible. Hence, from the time of the early church, there were unique trends that the church treat certain verses as the premise of missions. Even without the direct citations, those verses implicitly express the missional paradigm of the age. However, ‘missional hermeneutic’ on the Bible not just provides a biblical foundation of Mission but supports the mission as a whole. Which that the Bible, from cover to cover, it is constructed into the grand narrative, the mission of God.The study describes the mission of God by focusing on the concept of ‘covenant’ which is the repeating biblical narrative. The Idea of covenant is a major subject that forms the identity and the world view of Israel. From the covenant of Noah to the New Covenant in New Testament including the covenant of Abraham, Mount Sinai, and David, the idea is integrated into the grand narrative, the mission of God. Each covenant is not discontinuous from another but related since they were given according to the context of Israel. They were reconfirmed and reapplied in a large extent. In the Bible, the idea of covenant, the mission of God forms the core like the central nervous system. This paper proves the consistent idea of mission of God in the Bible by briefing the formation and the reconfirmations of the covenant. Jesus Christ was sent to ‘Yes’ all the promises(Cor II 1:20). God in Jesus of the Nazareth gave the suffering servant who is the descendent of Abraham blessing all races, who is the prophet overwhelms the Moses in bringing the grace and the truth into the world, who is the son of David reigning with righteousness endlessly, and who is the covenant gathering his people to him. Jesus who resurrected indeed reflected his identity to the Bible and also opened the eyes of his disciples who shall go forth to all nations with the power of the spirit(Lk 24:45-47). He is the only one who has the right to open the scroll that represents the entire history for he completed the mission of God(Rev 5:9). Therefore, every hermeneutic readings on the Bible must be messiahnic and missional. The ultimate object of the grand narrative must be found in Jesus Christ who died on the cross and resurrected from the deads. Missional hermeneutic overcomes multi-cultural hermeneutic and post-modern hermeneutic. Christian missions has experienced the challenges from post modern world for decades. The Bible rejoices diversity and approves the various human cultures with praise. Post-modernism also welcomes such characteristics of the Bible(cultural, local, relational, narrative). However, it limits those contexts into local and particular and generalize those as a whole. There are no narrative that includes all of them. There are no concept of the truth that integrates all the meaning of life with wholistic consistence. Diversity in hermeneutics does not affirm to a free licence to pluralism or relativism. Missional hermeneutic is different from them for it integrate the diversities, localities, and particularities into the grand narrative. The mission of God is a enormous story that clearly shown from the creation to the new creation in the Bible. It is the universal narrative that affirms the ultimate meaning to the human race that carries the particular cultural diversities. Missional hermeneutic is also a ecumenical hermeneutic since it contributes in church unity through biblical interpretation.

“오직 성경만으로(Sola Scriptura)!” 이 표어는 종교개혁의 중심원리 가운데 하나로서 다른 모든 신학적 원리들의 가장 기초가 되는 원리(prima principium)이다. 그러나 종교개혁기에 있어 다양한 논쟁적 상황에서 볼 때, “오직 성경만으로”라는 이 표어가 가지는 보다 구체적이고 명확한 신학적, 실천적 의미들은 더욱 세분하여 정확하게 논구될 필요가 있다. “오직 성경만 으로”라는 종교개혁의 원리는 신학적으로 다음과 같은 두 가지의 세부적인 교리로 구성됨을 알 수 있는데, 그것은 바로 (1) “성경의 충분성(sufficientia)” 교리와 (2) “성경의 명료성(claritas, or perspicuitas)” 교리이다. 본 논문에서는 이 가운데 특히 두 번째인 “성경의 명료성” 교리가 가지는 실제적이고도 중요 한 의미들을 루터의 신학을 중심으로 연구 고찰한 것이며, 또한 이것이 그의 종교개혁신학의 정립 과정과 성경해석 원리 및 여타 다른 종교개혁 원리들에 어떻게 상호작용하며 구체적으로 구현되고 작동되었는지 살펴 본 것이다. 본 연구에서는 마틴 루터의 종교개혁신학에 있어 특별히 ‘성경의 명료성’ 교리와 관련하여, (1) 인식적 원리(epistemological principle), (2) 신학적 원리(theological principle), (3) 해석학적 원리(hermeneutical principle), 그리고 마지막으로 (4) 실천적 원리(practical principle)로서의 그 실제적인 작용과 구체 적인 함의들을 구분하여 고찰한 것이다. 이러한 연구를 통하여 우리는 ‘성경의 명료성’ 교리가 루터의 ‘십자가의 신학’과 그의 종교개혁운동이 진전되는 과정에서 이루어진 여러 신학적 논쟁 과 신앙적인 투쟁의 국면들에 있어 다양한 기능의 역할과 함의들을 함축하고 있음을 살펴보았다. 본 논문의 분석에 따르면, 루터에게 있어 그것은 먼저, (1) 신학적 인식과 실천을 위한 명확한 확실성을 담보하는 근원적인 “인식론 적 원리”(epistemological principle)로 작용하고 있으며, (2) ‘십자가의 신학’의 정립을 위한 ‘그리스도와 복음 중심’의 성경해석의 “신학적 원리”(theological principle)로서 기능함과 동시에, (3) 종교개혁신학의 체계화를 위한 구체적인 성경해석 방법론을 구축하는 “해석학적 원리”(hermeneutical principle)로 작 동하고 있고, 마지막으로 (4) ‘말씀의 선포(설교)와 성례전의 개혁’, ‘전성도의 제사장직과 교회 직분의 개혁’, 그리고 ‘그리스도인의 소명론’과 일상의 삶의 개혁에 이르기까지 종교개혁신학의 핵심적인 “실천적 원리”(practical principle)들의 기초가 되고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 나아가 현대 성경해석학 적인 위기의 상황 속에서 루터를 비롯한 종교개혁자들이 그들의 종교개혁신 학을 정립함에 있어 가장 중요한 기초원리(prima principium)로 삼았던 “성경 의 명료성”(claritas Scripturae) 교리와 그것이 함축하는 올바른 성경해석 원리 들을 창조적으로 복원하여 더욱 발전적이며 체계적으로 적용하는 깊이 있는 연구가 더없이 중요하고 긴급하게 필요하다 할 것이다.