A Hermeneutical & Comparative Study on Yangtanch ŏk sinkwan (兩端的 神觀) in the 21 Letters Incantation of Tonghak and the Lord’s Prayer of Christianity

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· 저자명 : 정종성

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The purpose of this research is to hermeneutically compare the 21 Letters Incantation of Tonghak and the Lord’s Prayer of Christianity. They have their own divergent views on humanity and the sense of divinity, contingent upon their own history and culture. For it, the nature of language is first considered. Language itself is not something that saves us if we know it, but always skillful means to an end. It often works inadequate and even dangerous to its pursuit. It is because language, whatever it may be, is not reality. Recognizing such shortcomings and dangers in language helps practitioners not to fall into pitfalls of absolutizing religious words and even their understanding of religious claims to the truth. Attempting to disconnect from words, therefore, this work precipitates to see beyond the language differences and taking their underpinnings. The contents of this study is, therefore, to read religious canons from the perspective of other faith traditions. Interfaith hermeneutics helps us to look at ourselves as others see us, so that we may be able to see ourselves more clearly. The intra canonical dynamics opens new horizons to see how the religious text ultimately functions today. Going beyond their conceptual formulation, as well as their unique contingencies, however, this work explores through philological research that there are not a few convergencies between them, specifically their dual frames recognizing the deity, that is, transcendence and immanence, God and humanity, emptiness and fullness, individual and entirety. As religious prayers, they do seek the practice of their respective faiths within their mundane lives, particularly at the time of community suffering. If the Lord’s Prayer impels its devotees, who were persecuted and harassed by the Jewish mainstream, into the active engagement by self-denial and compassion toward everyday people, then the 21 Letters Incantation likewise concerns desperately pleading humans, as well as the deity who is worshipped within at the same time. In particular, sich’ ŏnchu (侍天主) characterizes God (Hanullim) as dwelling in the heart of every person, as well as the spiritual energy prevalent in the world, which is convergently assumed in both prayers, though with different language. Divinity and humanity are not disparate to each other, though not one; Humans are subsumed by God but nevertheless not subordinated. Hence, the result of this exploration is as follows: In self-negation and solidarity with suffering people, the two prayers are proffering the way to be mindful as sich’ ŏnchu and chiki (至氣) through their immediate intuitive awakening and sympathetic engagement, only if the devotees were fully inspired by the Spirit as Su-un’s chiki. This is mysteriously and richly explicated by yangtanch ŏk sinkwan (兩端的 神觀), a logic of p’ow ŏl (subsumed transcendence, 包越).

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