Self-Deification and Mammon: A Weberian Theological Insight into Church Decline Trends in Protestant South Korea and the Occident
In this work, Max Weber’s social analysis is employed to demonstrate that human self-deification is the cardinal reason for church decline. Weber’s social analytical tool unearths the various sources of human self-deification in the church respectively as secular humanism as well the traditional...
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Noyam Publishers
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.32051/02211903 https://doaj.org/article/3e3e99a779aa4b318afcdf8b055d2db6 |
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| Sumario: | In this work, Max Weber’s social analysis is employed to demonstrate that human
self-deification is the cardinal reason for church decline. Weber’s social analytical
tool unearths the various sources of human self-deification in the church
respectively as secular humanism as well the traditional religions. For example,
Korean Shamanism, Buddhism and Confucian hierarchical culture may instigate or
reinforce human self-deification. This is achieved through the intuitive agreement
with an observed cultural value (human self-deification) known as Ideal Type and
its logical explication. The paper shows that postmodern ethic tends to deify the
human personality which self-deification also is promoted by scientific materialism.
Hence the church declines because it loses its object and focus of worship thereby
losing her relevance in postmodernism. |
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