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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Autor principal:	Charles Amarkwei
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Publicado:	Noyam Publishers 2019
Materias:	max weber self-deification Christianity BR1-1725 The Bible BS1-2970
Acceso en línea:	https://doi.org/10.32051/02211903 https://doaj.org/article/3e3e99a779aa4b318afcdf8b055d2db6
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:3e3e99a779aa4b318afcdf8b055d2db62021-11-16T11:34:18ZSelf-Deification and Mammon: A Weberian Theological Insight into Church Decline Trends in Protestant South Korea and the Occidenthttps://doi.org/10.32051/022119032458-7338https://doaj.org/article/3e3e99a779aa4b318afcdf8b055d2db62019-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://noyam.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ERATS0219ART3.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2458-7338In 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.Charles AmarkweiNoyam Publishersarticlemax weberself-deificationChristianityBR1-1725The BibleBS1-2970ENE-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 28-39 (2019)
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description	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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title	Self-Deification and Mammon: A Weberian Theological Insight into Church Decline Trends in Protestant South Korea and the Occident
title_short	Self-Deification and Mammon: A Weberian Theological Insight into Church Decline Trends in Protestant South Korea and the Occident
title_full	Self-Deification and Mammon: A Weberian Theological Insight into Church Decline Trends in Protestant South Korea and the Occident
title_fullStr	Self-Deification and Mammon: A Weberian Theological Insight into Church Decline Trends in Protestant South Korea and the Occident
title_full_unstemmed	Self-Deification and Mammon: A Weberian Theological Insight into Church Decline Trends in Protestant South Korea and the Occident
title_sort	self-deification and mammon: a weberian theological insight into church decline trends in protestant south korea and the occident
publisher	Noyam Publishers
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Self-Deification and Mammon: A Weberian Theological Insight into Church Decline Trends in Protestant South Korea and the Occident

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