Chul Woo Son 
The Motives of Self-Sacrifice in Korean American Culture, Family, and Marriage [PDF ebook] 
From Filial Piety to Familial Integrity

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The concept of self-sacrifice is highly important to Korean Americans. With hierarchy of age, social status, and gender-defined roles taking primacy over equality and justice, self-sacrifice becomes instrumental in maintaining family and social relationships. Unfortunately, in family relationships, sacrifice has more to do with submission and endurance than it does with sacrificial service that is redemptive and mutually beneficial. When self-sacrifice carries hidden motives–coercive responsibility, obligation, shame, guilt, or one’s reputation–that 'self-sacrifice’ is not self-giving, neither serving nor being of mutual benefit.
In this context, it is important to explore the attitudes and motives of self-sacrifice in Korean American families. In unlocking and exploring the dynamics of the theology and practice of self-sacrifice for Korean Americans, this book explores cultural virtues, marital relationships, gender inequality, domestic violence, and their theological implications. The author introduces a new approach and model with a proposal for a healthier and a more judicious understanding of self-sacrifice for Korean American family relationships. The element of 'equal regard’ as pertaining to self-sacrifice offers Korean Americans a refreshing hope in the perspective of familial relationships and a liberating casting-off of culturally and religiously imposed burdens. The Korean American family ought to be grounded on a love ethic of equal regard and place its value on mutuality, self-sacrifice, and individual fulfillment. When this is done, sacrificial love can be understood as justly appropriated for both husbands and wives, males and females, and parents and children. Thus, Christian teaching and theology may deliver a more transparent message of true agape and its liberating effects for the marginalized, especially women and children.

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Chul Woo Son received his Ph D degree in pastoral counseling from Fuller Theological Seminary. He currently serves Korean Central Presbyterian Church (Centreville, Virginia) as Pastor of Family Counseling Ministry.

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Język Angielski ● Format PDF ● Strony 246 ● ISBN 9781725248762 ● Rozmiar pliku 1.8 MB ● Wydawca Wipf and Stock Publishers ● Miasto Eugene ● Kraj US ● Opublikowany 2014 ● Do pobrania 24 miesięcy ● Waluta EUR ● ID 7594479 ● Ochrona przed kopiowaniem Adobe DRM
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