Thesis (DTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The difficulties attending our understanding of the experience of shame are widely
recognized. This work is concerned with the interplay between the experience of shame and
religious pathology in Korean culture, especially regarding theological anthropology.
Religious pathology implies the sick or distorted faith when people’s belief system or
contents, particularly inappropriate God-images and negative self-identity, becomes
negatively influenced due to painful experiences of shame. It was hypothesis that the
phenomenon of shame in Korean culture needs to be understood in terms of multidimensional
perspectives including psychological, sociological, socio-cultural and a theological
perspective as well. It was argued that parishioners’ biased understanding of, and response to
the experience of shame, is associated with inappropriate God-images and negative selfidentity
which hamper spiritual maturity and spiritual growth.
The empirical research reported in chapter 5 shows that the parishioners’ experience of shame
is associated with disharmony between values and expectations in a specific community. This
phenomenon has a huge impact on position (habitus; attitude; aptitude) within cultural
contexts.
The study proposes the use of a pneumatological model of understanding of God, based on
Louw’s four-stage counselling model, in order to respond constructively to an existential
problem such as shame within the Korean Presbyterian Church. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die ingewikkeldhede verbonde aan ons verstaan van die belewing van skaamte word wyd
erken. Hierdie werk is gemoeid met die wisselwerking tussen die belewing van skaamte en godsdienspatologie binne die Koreaanse kultuur, veral met betrekking tot fn teologiese antropologie.
Godsdienspatologie impliseer die siek of verwronge geloof wanneer mense se
oortuigingsisteem of -inhoude, in die besonder onvanpaste Godsbeelde en negatiewe selfidentiteit, destruktief beinvloed word as gevolg van 'n pynlike en lydingsvolle belewing van skaamte. Daar is gehipotetiseer dat die verskynsel van skande in die Koreaanse kultuur verstaan moet word in terme van multidimensionele benaderings, te wete sielkundige, sosiologiese, sosio-kulturele en teologiese perspektiewe. Daar is geargumenteer dat lidmate se eensydige verstaan van en reaksie op die belewing van skande geassosieer is met
onvanpaste Godsbeelde en negatiewe selfidentiteit wat geestelike volwassenheid en spirituele
groei belemmer.
Die empiriese navorsing waaroor in hoofstuk 5 verslag gedoen is, toon aan dat die lidmate se belewing van skaamte verband hou met diskrepansie tussen waardes en verwagtinge in 'n spesifieke gemeenskap. In die verband speel die kultureel-religeuse agtergrond van Korea 'n deurslaggewende rol. Hierdie verskynsel het fn fundamentele impak op mense se posisie
(habitus; hauding; wees-funtsie) binne kulturele kontekste.
Die studie stel die gebruik van 'n pneumatologiese model, gebaseer op die vierfase beradingsmodel van Louw, vir die verstaan van God voor om konstruktief te reageer op die eksistensiele probleem van skaamte binne die Koreaans-Presbiteraanse Kerk.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/18027 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Jung, Yeun Chul |
| Contributors | Louw, Daniel J., Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Theology. Dept. of Practical Theology and Missiology. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | Unknown |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | xi, 295 leaves : ill. |
| Rights | Stellenbosch University |
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