헬무트 틸리케의 신학적 윤리학의 특성 -응용된 칭의론으로서 타협의 윤리학

Abstract

Thielicke develops a thought of theological ethics based on the Reformational doctrine of justification. The distinctiveness of his ethics consists in that it is not norm ethics but a hermeneutics of ethical reality. It can be called an ethics of compromise. Thielicke views the change of the being must precede the ethical action. The ethical act is the mark following the fact of justification. Thielicke defines Christian ethics as not a norm ethics but as a hermeneutics of ethical reality. Theological ethics is an interpretation of reality. It is namely to show the human, which is the being in the world, in the middle of his status and world order, and in the his conflict and his limitation situation. Thielicke intends to set up a casuistic rules for every situation. He, instead, intends to suggest diverse behavior way based on theological principles by suggesting one model. God has revised his unconditional will considering the human fall in the history. This is the accommodation of God. The accommodation as compromise is the providence of God's salvation history. God's accommodation is realized by the act that He accommodates himself to this world in order to redeem the fallen world and carries out in endurance for himself. The accommodation is carried out by giving the law as the old covenant and the Gospel as the new covenant. The event of humiliation of God to lower himself to the level of human eye is God's compromise. Thielicke's ethics is characterized neither as norm ethics nor as situation ethics but as pneumatological one. His ethics begins neither with norm nor nullifies the norm by considering situation for important, but intends to understand the spontaneity the Holy Spirit causes as a reference of behaviors confronting the concrete situation. Thielicke views there is a certain "kasuistisches Minimum". Casuistic does not exist, but casuistic minimum exists. His ethics of compromise is relevant for Korean society, in which the radical polarization of conflicts has appeared in the region of parliament, industry, school and even in the church.