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| author | Kyongmook Ryu |
| title | Theopoetics in Multiple Relationships: A Sustaining and Transforming Process |
| abstract | In my pastoral concern, I experienced great resonance of relational performances in
my congregants’ abysmal situation to affirm sustainability and transformation of the
divine. Regarding their wounded hearts, I argue that the suggestive power of the divine
through theopoetic performances in multiple relations is a way of mutual immanence
between the divine and human, a self and a community, and a community and other
communities. The self is incarnated in others through mutual immanence in communal
performances. Differences are affirmed for creative transformation and the common-
wealth of God. God as a poet of the world is sustaining and transforming the wounded
hearts of the victim through the communal performances in becoming. It is a re-
affirmation of mutual responsiveness and responsibility. The healing of wounded hearts
occurs through that process, and the reconciliation leads the creative transformation for
the common-wealth of God.
In this thesis, I argue how the self is co-constructed in a multi-relational web. As a
way of creative transformation, arts performances sustained the Jewish community in the abysmal situation in Theresienstadt. African oral literature shows how the communal
performances are co-constructed and transformed in solidarity. Theopoetic in a multi-
relational web is sustaining the people in an abysmal situation and transforming the world
for the common-wealth of God. |
| school | The Theological School, Drew University |
| degree | M.A. (2015) |
| advisor | Catherine Keller
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| committee | Catherine Keller
Robert S. Corrington
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| full text | KRyu.pdf |
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