바울의 실존적 투쟁에 나타난 죽음 이해와 종말론: 빌립보서 1장 21-24절의 주석을 중심으로 (Paul's View of Death and Eschatology in Paul's Existential Struggle: Focused on Exegetical Reflection of Philippians 1:21- 24)

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초록

This study explores how we can rightly interpret the existential struggle in Philippians 1:21-24 in comparison with recent scholars’ interpretations based upon Hellenistic view of death. For this purpose, this study displays the recent trend of research on the Paul’s existential struggle manifested in the selected text of Phil. 1:21-24. In other words, it explores why Paul faces up with this existential struggle between life and death, what kind of language expresses his own theological feature, and how we can interpret the religious language of Paul’s existential struggle in light of his prominent eschatology in Phil. 2:6-11. For the sake of an advanced exegetical exploration of the text, this research not only critically evaluates Droge’s view of the text’s intention as suicide and Palmer’s view of it’s intention as escapist resignation to death, but also examines Croy’s recent study on its rhetorical features. Then this study introduces Cousar, Reuman and O’Brien’s recent exegetical work on martyrdom intention in the text, and critically examines their works. By evaluating both theoretical work and exegetical work, our critical review argues that it implies the sophisticated theological intention, e.g. that Paul’s eschatological view of death implied in religious language of Phil. 2:21-24 is proposed to resist against both sacrificial death as the means of preserving religious privileges implied in eschatological death and suicidal death as means of sacrificial protest dramatized by Roman view of noble death. It also claims that Phil. 1:21-24 is designed to not simply evoke Hellenistic view of death as escapism, but suggest political theology against imposed imperialistic ideology and cultural convention of competitive pursuit of higher social rank. In conclusion, this study implicitly raises the issue of how Paul’s eschatology in the text contribute to overcoming our own Korean political culture of competition for higher social rank in neo-liberalistic imperial system of banking capitalism.

영어초록

This study explores how we can rightly interpret the existential struggle in Philippians 1:21-24 in comparison with recent scholars’ interpretations based upon Hellenistic view of death. For this purpose, this study displays the recent trend of research on the Paul’s existential struggle manifested in the selected text of Phil. 1:21-24. In other words, it explores why Paul faces up with this existential struggle between life and death, what kind of language expresses his own theological feature, and how we can interpret the religious language of Paul’s existential struggle in light of his prominent eschatology in Phil. 2:6-11. For the sake of an advanced exegetical exploration of the text, this research not only critically evaluates Droge’s view of the text’s intention as suicide and Palmer’s view of it’s intention as escapist resignation to death, but also examines Croy’s recent study on its rhetorical features. Then this study introduces Cousar, Reuman and O’Brien’s recent exegetical work on martyrdom intention in the text, and critically examines their works. By evaluating both theoretical work and exegetical work, our critical review argues that it implies the sophisticated theological intention, e.g. that Paul’s eschatological view of death implied in religious language of Phil. 2:21-24 is proposed to resist against both sacrificial death as the means of preserving religious privileges implied in eschatological death and suicidal death as means of sacrificial protest dramatized by Roman view of noble death. It also claims that Phil. 1:21-24 is designed to not simply evoke Hellenistic view of death as escapism, but suggest political theology against imposed imperialistic ideology and cultural convention of competitive pursuit of higher social rank. In conclusion, this study implicitly raises the issue of how Paul’s eschatology in the text contribute to overcoming our own Korean political culture of competition for higher social rank in neo-liberalistic imperial system of banking capitalism.

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