Kim, Eun-kyu. "Was the Proclamation of the Canon of Medicine or a Poison? - A Comparison between Ruling Christianity and minjung ("the oppressed") Judaism." Madang, International Journal of Contextual Theology in East Asia 13 (15th June 2010): 61-86.
Abstract
This article asks how Christianity
relates its biblical canon to Church history. The canon of the
Bible is absolute
power to Christianity. However, Judaism has developed sustaining
the Hebrew
Scriptures and at the same time accepting diverse ideas and
philosophies. What and why are these big differences? The Christian
canon
did not need to accept other thoughts, because Christianity had
political and
church power after the Roman Empire in the expansion
of history. On
the contrary, as Jews were persecuted from Christianity and Islam, they
endured
oppressions to keep their traditional scriptures and to adjust to the
reception of new
thoughts in areas of the Diaspora. . Holy Scriptures of Christianity
did not rise up its
thoughts in the barrier of the canon at all. Political and church power
always
have made use of the ruling ideologies and exclusive attitudes for
their
benefits and profits be supported by theology. I question what is the
meaning and
the reconsiderable value of canon in the context of new liberalism,
the global
empire of the 21st century. I expect that Anglicanism has to be
open and dialogue and make a new
canon with diverse ideas, philosophies, religions in new global
contexts for
viewing the next future centuries.
Keywords: canon, historical criticism, Christianity and Judaism history,
minjung theology,