이 논문에서는 『라이프 오브 파이』와 각색 영화에 재현된 주인공의 다종교 적 믿음을 살펴보고 이 믿음이 난파에서 생존하게 한 힘이었다는 것을 보이고 자 한다. 소설과 영화는 파이가 호랑이와 구명보트에 동승한 채 227일간 태평양 을 떠도는 과정을 다룬다. 이 과정에서 소설과 영화는 파이가 생존하기 위해 살 인하고 인육을 먹는 사실을 다르게 재현하지만, 궁극적으로 작가와 감독은 소년 의 다종교적 믿음이 삶의 동인이 되었다는 것을 보여주고자 한 것으로 보인다. 작가와 감독은 파이의 그러한 잔인한 행위가 용서받을 수 있는 행위인가를 묻 는 것이 아니라, 인간 이하 수준으로까지 추락하는 파이를 보여줌으로써 포스트 모던 주체, 즉 불완전한 주체를 제시한다. 여기서 파이가 보여주는 다종교적 믿 음은 어느 종파나 어느 신이 중요한 것이 아니라, 포스트모던 주체의 불안한 존 재, 즉 나아가 불완전한 인간이 무한대로 의지하는 신에 대한 믿음으로 생존할 수 있었음을 보여주는 것과 연관되어 있다. 이런 점에서 『라이프 오브 파이』는 신을 믿게 만드는 이야기라 할 수 있다.

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.