In a broad sense, this research mainly attempts to deal with two questions: (1) What makes a young adult change into a wholesome person? and (2) Which educational model is most effective and prominent for helping young adults become more whole? The former question was raised out of the author's subjective interests and curiosities and the second question seeks to find the objective answers to the former question. In order to examine the above questions, the young adult generation was chosen as the focus of this study. This study proposes "A Pedagogy of Acology," an educational model that integrates the distinctive features of Christian love and ecological principles. The word "Acology" is coined with a meaning of "Agapic love-centered-ecologically-grounded." This model will not only guide young adults to grow into wholeness but will also enable them to become important members of a Christian community. Eventually, Christian community in the company of young adults will become a community of agents of peace, reconciliation, and transformation in today's local and global world. The new model's theological groundings, its pedagogy and educational method can be summed up in three loving activities: "Love God," "Love one another," and "Love the whole creation.
This book examines Japan and Korea's post-World War II constitutional history to challenge enduring assumptions about the nature of constitution-making.
This book is an in-depth interpretation of Max Weber as a political theorist of civil society. On the one hand, it reads Weber's ideas from the perspective of modern political thought, rather than the modern social sciences; on the other, it offers a liberal assessment of this complex political thinker without attempting to apologize for his shortcomings. Through an alternative reading of Weber's religious, epistemological and political writings, the book shows Weber's concern with public citizenship in a modern mass democracy and civil society as its cultivating ground. Kim argues Weber's political thought, thus recast, was deeply informed by Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and other German political thinkers and also reveals an affinity to the liberal-republican tradition best represented by Mill and Tocqueville. Kim has effectively resuscitated Weber as a political thinker for our time in which civic virtues and civil society have once again become one of the dominant issues.
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