Professional Life
Academic Journals
Baptism and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, the Similarities and Differences between the Two Rituals. (2022).
Korean Journal of Christian Studies, 104. (Atla RDB® & Korean Citation Index) DOI : 10.18708/kjcs.2022.4.124.1.303
📖 (Abstract) This paper believes that both baptism and NSSI are paying attention to the 'self-destructive function.' Baptism shows this through precipitation and NSSI through direct harm. However, baptism solves the cause of self-destruction by introducing its intrapersonal factors into interpersonal spheres, while NSSI reduces its interpersonal factors into intrapersonal spheres. This comparison and analysis present a new methodology that practical theology should examine the operating system of the individual's convergence process in dealing with the NSSI, which is significant in enabling interdisciplinary conversation between theology and psychiatry.
Keywords: NSSI, Baptism, Self-Destructive Function, Pastoral Care
Understanding of the Hope of Theology from the Perspective of Pastoral Care: Focused on the Moltmann's Theology and Eschatological Self. (2021).
Theological Forum, 105. (Atla RDB® & Korean Citation Index) / DOI : 10.17301/tf.2021.09.105.33
📖 If this Eschatological Self passes through the hopeful resources of the future, not the resources of the past, the present of the world and individuals are never determined by the past or this moment but are being newly created in the divine experience, the future. (53p)
(Abstract) This paper analyzes Jürgen Moltmann’s theological theory from the perspective of Pastoral Care. According to psychological or psychoanalytic theories, it is widely accepted that the present has always been determined by the past. From a Christian point of view, however, this is the same as the Deuteronomistic History, because they point out the attribution of pain and suffering they are experiencing from past sins. However, Moltmann considered the core elements of the Christian faith as Jesus Christ who was suffering and eschatological future. Also in order for an individual to acquire Christian faith, he claims that they have to meet Jesus, who suffers together in pain. Through this, people should not live in the present pain but expect the eschatological world partially achieved by Jesus. Organizing Moltmann’s life and theology suggests the real meaning of eschatology which has been centered on its events, Eschatology is not the events, but the process, and it is both the future and the present.
When the theology of hope comes to Pastoral Care, the eschatological self-concept can be presented. According to the eschatological self, suffering is not the result of the past, but the possibility of mediating a hopeful future. As a result, the present is no longer dependent on the past but is influenced by the future, which is a hope for new creation.
Keywords: Eschatology, Theology of Hope, Eschatological Self, Theological Pastoral Care, Jurgen Moltmann
Understanding of the Eschatological Self-Acquisition Process of Adolescents in Hospitalization. (2021).
Journal of EAP & Family Counseling Coaching, 6.
📖 The feelings of anger or skepticism among adolescents during hospitalization are natural processes. And the process of interpreting and mediating the 'sense of being alive' as a meeting with a transcendent being—divinity—can be seen as causing adolescents to discover the divine being in pain and discover future values. In addition, this is a dynamic flow within the 'analytic field' beyond the counselor's power, and it is judged to be the hope and intrinsic of transcendence in terms of analytical psychology. (70p)
Conversations Between Intersubjectivity, Theodicy, and Quaternity: How Pastoral Care and Counseling, and Construction Theology Interact. (2025 Planning)
Not decided, (writing in process). (Atla RDB® & EBSCO & Google Scholar & ProQuest & SCOPUS)
📖 (Abstract) Practical Theology has always been situated in the midst of theoretical and clinical practice. When describing pastoral theology, Seward Hiltner stressed the significance of a "shepherding perspective". Practical and Pastoral Theology have traditionally incorporated biblical-theological and constructive theological perspectives in forming their unique identities and academic domains. With a focus on Practical Theology, this study attempts to apply the philosophical and psychoanalytic idea of Intersubjectivity to the discourse of Theodicy by analyzing Carl Jung's Quaternity and Hegel's dialectics. Two techniques are used in this study: first, Carl Jung's Quaternity theory is revisited, and it is integrated with Hegel's dialectical discourse of God in an attempt to take a constructive theological stance. Second, it suggests the Intersubjectivity Theodicy by elucidating the relationship between intersubjectivity—a term employed in pastoral counseling—and quaternity.
Keywords: Intersubjectivity, Theodicy, Quaternity, Pastoral Care, Pastoral Counseling, Construction Theology
Is Epoche Possible? Epoche and Bracketing in Pastoral Care and Counseling. (2025-26 Planning)
(writing in process)
📖 Process in Writing