An Alternative for Christian Higher Education in Asia
A. Centering the Gospel of Jesus as
the Wisdom of Life in Asia
The vocation and heritage of Christian higher
education in Asia has been its role as the training ground of leadership to
serve the people[1]
in national liberation, nation building, and modernization.
This is closely related to the Christian
mission history of the world, and brings two criticisms: Christian higher
education has been too mission- (evangelism)-centered, and too
ecclesio-centric.[2]
This is not widely recognized in or outside of the church, but it should have
been a people-centered mission. At the same time, Asian Christian higher
educational institutions have been a gate for the entry of Western culture into
Asia, especially modern Western science and technology, which is fundamentally
secular and yet often associated with the Western Christianity. In a certain
sense it has been a component of the modernization project. What is absent here
at the heart of Christian higher education in Asia is an Asian sense of
history: that the People in Asia are the subject of their own history.[3]
This absence has meant, on the one hand, that the Gospel of Jesus is not placed
at the center of Asian history; and on the other hand that the institutions of
Christian higher education in Asia have not taken seriously the experiential
wisdom of Asia’s religions and cultures, and its historical resources for
social, political and economic life.
Christian higher education in Asia was needed
to support the Christian community and to serve the people of Asian nations. It
was to train Asian thinkers, intellectuals and professional leaders in Asian
nations who would lead their people to self-determination and liberation from
the colonial powers as well as from the traditional despotic powers. In either
case revolutionary leaders with a strong sense of Asian historical destiny as
well as Asian identity were needed.
Post World War II Asian leaders embraced
modernization as the way to build their new nations. The formation of Asian people’s leadership
was needed for a creative Asian convergence and fusion, taking intellectual and
cultural resources from both Asia and the West in the light of the definite
aspirations and goals of the Asian peoples. The Gospel of Jesus should have
been placed at the heart of this creative convergence of East and West so as to
respond to the people’s historical aspirations.
In this process Christianity should have had
a definite Asian identity, overcoming its association with the West and with
colonial domination. This is still true, in Asia and elsewhere. What is needed
is to recover the Gospel of Jesus from a new perspective and to affirm that the
Gospel of Jesus is of Asian religious and cultural-historical origin. Therefore
our new theological task is to establish the Asian identity of Christianity, so
that the Gospel of Jesus can be placed at the center of the whole life of the
Asian people. Christian higher education in Asia involves this theological
task, different from the mere importing of Western theologies.
The Gospel of Jesus is the center of Asian
Christian Identity.
Jesus is the life of the world, and the
Gospel of Jesus is the wisdom of life for all living beings in the cosmos. Now our task is to clarify the Gospel of
Jesus in Asia, under the present process of globalization and domination by
Empire.
Ethics is the granting of full life to all
living beings. It means faith, hope and love in life, which can be conjugated
into the interconnected values of free participation (koinonia), justice, peace
and well-being (Shalom), creativity and identity, spirituality and
conviviality. Only when they are interconnected in an integral way can these
values carry their whole meaning. When they are disconnected, they create
serious ethical dilemmas.
B.
Asia Pacific Graduate School for Integral Study of Life
Based on the above prolegomena, I will now
introduce my initiative for the “Asia Pacific Graduate School for the Integral
Study of Life.”
I.
Background and Direction
The
Asia Pacific Graduate School, a graduate college, is designed as an alternative
to the theological seminary and graduate theological education system. It is at
the same time an alternative to the university and graduate school of the
present academic system. It combines the Eastern way of learning and the
Western academic system through an integral and holistic approach, transforming
the classical university education system, based on departmental studies, into
a “ganzheitlich” whole. It is an attempt at a synthetic, integral fusion of “East”
and “West” in search of a creative convergence of wisdom for fullness of life.
It is a search for ways to realize a new civilization of common life for all
living beings, overcoming the forces of death inherent in globalization and
domination by Empire.
1.
There is an acute need to build new theoretical foundations that will enable
the Asian peoples, including Koreans, to respond to the issues and challenges
of globalization and the Empire in Asia and worldwide. This requires high-level
research and studies as well as training of new leadership at the highest
levels. The Graduate School (and the
Advanced Institute for Integral Study) was designed to carry out comprehensive
and integral studies (humanities, social sciences, natural sciences including
electronic informatics and life sciences) on the life of all living beings in
the universe. As an alternative to the
prevailing academic system of specialization and compartmentalization, it pursues integral studies based on the
establishment of a new academic paradigm, the Integral Study of Life, using a
methodology of multi-disciplinary integration. Thus, the
theology of life (the Gospel of Jesus=Ethics) will find its concrete expression
at the base of the integral study of life.
2.
Modern universities in Asia have often ignored or marginalized Asian religious
and cultural traditions, in a university system that is geared towards the
project of the modernization, going so far as to undervalue Asian spiritual
foundations. The university system has contributed to processes of
industrialization, modernization, technocratization and globalization that
exclude Asian religious-cultural foundations, that is, the fundamental
spirituality of the peoples of Asia. There have been cultural and religious
reactions to this process, sometimes causing fundamentalist reactions.
This
situation must be corrected. The new
century can give birth to a new civilization that recovers Asian wisdom. The Graduate School accordingly seeks to lay
a new religious and cultural foundation for the whole of life in the world, and
to catalyze a creative fusion drawing on resources from the Asian traditions.
This is done through high-level integral studies, through cross-fertilization
among the diverse cultures and religions. The study of the Gospel of Jesus
involves an Asian integration and fusion of Western theological wisdom and
Asian religious and cultural wisdom, respecting diversity and integrity.
3. The Graduate School studies alternative
policies for the opening of new ways toward fullness of life, and explores new
avenues toward a new order of life. The roots of the crisis of modern
civilization lie in the Cartesian captivity of epistemology, the technocratic
domination of life, the Western industrial economy that destroys and wastes
nature, the global market that is the major mechanism for profit maximization,
the hi-tech geopolitical wars that are waged under mono-polar hegemony, the
intensification of social conflicts and contradictions, the political
oppression of peoples, and the desertification of cultural life as a result of “mass
culture” through hi-tech media communications. The Graduate School seeks to
meet the urgent need for the building of
an infrastructure for alternative policy studies and development promoting
professional engagement in creative processes toward fullness of life.
4.
A special element of the Graduate School
is its approach to the revolutions in life sciences and hi-tech multi-media
communication and information from the perspective of humanity (ethics).
The new millennium is arriving in the midst of globalization, at the center of
which there are two revolutionary changes: the development of molecular
biology, and technetronic advances in hi-tech, multi-media information and
communication. These two are closely connected through the computer sciences.
The Institute is studying these revolutionary changes through the paradigm of
the Study of Life with the purpose of integrating them for the authentic
enhancement of life.
5.
The theology of life, that is, the study of the Gospel of Jesus, founded in the
biblical and theological traditions, is at the heart of the integral study of
life of all living beings. It will be
developed through macro-ecumenical engagement (inter-religious studies and
humanities), and will provide the fundamental (spiritual and religious)
paradigm for the Study of Life.
II. Principles of Study and Education
The Graduate School affirms that life is
the corporate (common, convivial) subject: self-propagating, self-nourishing,
self-healing, self-sustaining, self-governing, self-fulfilling, and
self-transcending; and that living bodies form a convivial community of life. The
study of life is an integral, interconnected and holistic, intellectual pursuit
of the wisdom of life. It may be called “ZOESOPHIA.” It seeks to overcome the limitations of the prevailing academic paradigm
of modernity. It seeks to clarify the Zoegraphy (the Story of the Life of All
Living Beings) as an integral whole of life.
Our graduate school will seek in the first place to overcome the
reductionist and fragmentising sciences of modernity, instead promoting
integral, holistic studies. It will integrate the sensory, bodily, communal,
ecological, intellectual and spiritual dimensions of life, through multi－disciplinary studies. Religious studies
(theology) will be interconnected with the humanities，the social sciences and the study of
nature. The arts，humanities, social sciences and natural
sciences need radical transformation to become integral, organically
interconnected parts of the wisdom of life.
The Graduate School promotes creative
interaction and dialogue in the search for wisdom of life among civilizations,
especially those of East and West. It seeks to restore Eastern traditions and resources
that are fundamental to the search for rich wisdom. We believe that creative
interaction between the two civilizations will open the way to a new
civilization for life.
Our study will seek to clarify the liberating selfhood
of life, overcoming oppressive ideologies and regimes, and searching for theory and practice of the liberation
of life. The holistic study of life and the training of holistic scholars will
include: life feminist studies,
sustainable social economy, life diakonia for social justice and well-being,
peace studies, cultural anthropology of life, arts of life, ecological
integrity and other areas.
The Graduate School will form and promote a free and
participatory community of scholars who pursue the study of life on the basis
of the conviviality of life. This cooperative community of students and
teachers will enjoy maximum freedom for study and learning. Already the Advanced Institute for the Study
of Life, the stepping stone of the Graduate School, is organized as such a
community, composed of two dozen research and training institutes and community
projects.
At the same time, the study will be pursued in freedom from any principalities or
powers—economic, political or religious (academic freedom). It will serve life
and people, and will support movements for life in various forms.
Our Graduate School will be based upon the Christian
faith, yet radically open to all religions, philosophies and cultures. Its
studies will restore spiritual, artistic and sensory dimensions as well as
rational and intellectual dimensions, recognizing the inner connections of life
across the spiritual, aesthetic, sensory, bodily, communal and cosmic
dimensions. There will be creative interaction between Eastern and Western,
Southern and Northern spirituality. Diversity and cross-fertilization of
cultures and religions, with full affirmation of the identities of each culture
and religion, will be promoted.
We strongly affirm the openness of life to dimensions
of mystery.
Religious and spiritual experiences of peoples in every
part of the world will be studied for their holistic healing, their philosophical
meditation, and other areas of wisdom.
Study and training will enter the depths of spiritual and religious
life, as an integral part of life as a whole. Spiritual discipline will be an
integral part of the curriculum.
III.
The Graduate School has begun to set up the process for the Integral Study of
Life
1.
Establishing Combined
Multidisciplinary Advanced Degree programs of 5 years.
2.
Establishing a Global Network in
cooperation with international research and study institutions.
3.
Operating Advanced
Cross-fertilization Programs; opening global-level programs to facilitate
exchanges and interaction among professional researchers.
4.
Functioning as a center to advance
the life paradigm, in cooperation with participating study and research centers
in Korea and other parts of the world.
5.
Carrying out a number of practical
projects for professional engagement.
6.
Maintaining an Electronic Data
Center and Library.
7.
Establishing a global network of
scholars, study centers and universities for the Study of Life.
IV.
Organization and Structure
1. Community of Faculty and Scholars
Within the framework of the Study of Life
paradigm, there will be one integral, multi-disciplinary faculty, which will
have three clusters: the Faculty of
Christian Studies of Life (Theology), the Humanities Faculty/Social Sciences
Faculty, and the Integral Study of Life Faculty, all of which will be housed in
the centre of the campus. The faculty is to be composed in the form of a cooperative community of
multi-disciplinary scholars, to support the integral studies of life. In
this sense the organization of the Graduate School is an alternative to the
rationale of established universities; namely, it is a truly free community of
scholars.
1) The faculty community will be composed of the Core
Faculty, Cooperative Faculty in Korea, and Overseas Cooperative Faculty.
2) Core Faculty members are competent experts in their own
fields, at the level of advanced professional scholarship and educational
leadership. They come from Korea and
from the international community of committed scholars. Usually they will be responsible for a
research institute, carrying out research projects, in addition to the regular
academic program
3) Cooperative Faculty members from Korean graduate
schools and institutes will participate in the research and learning/studying
process on a contract basis. They will
join in research projects of the institutes of the school as well as in the
academic program.
4) Overseas Cooperative Faculty members will be drawn from
international graduate institutions and research and study institutes. They
will join the academic program for given periods, as well as taking part in
cooperative research projects.
The faculty community will promote a cooperative and
participatory style of work for maximum academic freedom. The faculty community
will be built gradually. Faculty:
8~15 Core Faculty, 60 National and international Research Faculty; Scholars
(this community will grow gradually): 300 for advanced degree, 300 non-degree
scholars, 100 Scholars of International Cooperative Program, International
Scholars = 10% of the scholars community.
2. Advanced Study and Research Programs
The APGS sets up (1) tailor-made study programs for
advanced-level degrees according to the
aspirations of each student. At the same time, it sets up (2) advanced research
programs. These two will form the main study process.
There will be 3 area programs: (a) a Program of Social
Sciences and Ecology, (b) Program of
Christian Study of Life, and (c) a Program of Integral Study of Life.
a. The Program
of Social Sciences and Ecology will promote an alternative integrated social
science methodology.[4]
b. The Program
of Christian Study of Life is an alternative to the prevailing form of
theological studies. It will consist of scriptural studies, historical studies,
theoretical studies and practical studies, which will be connected with the
humanities and social sciences in a multidisciplinary manner.[5]
The Program of Integral Study of Life combines the
Christian Study of Life and Social Sciences and Ecology programs and will focus
on specific issues:[6]
1) Study and research work in other competent graduate
institutes will be recognized upon evaluation.
2) Candidates will be recruited from the
communities of the Korean Diaspora
as well as from Asia /Africa and other parts of the world.
3. Curriculum
The prevailing university academic
system and education as a whole, including research and development, have been
subjugated to the global market regime. At the same time, education is
predominantly determined by modern science and technology, without sufficient
consideration of ethical values questions.
In the search for the wisdom of life it
is necessary to overcome the reductionist and fragmentising academic system of
the modern sciences and their technologies. A new way of studying life on earth—an
alternative to the prevailing system of academia, research, education and
training—should be a genuine search for the wisdom of life, which can give true
abundance to the life of peoples and the cosmos. Therefore we need an
alternative study paradigm, which would be a creative fusion of the modern
sciences with the wisdom of life.
1)
Pro-seminars on multidisciplinary methodology
2)Tailor-made
program of study for each scholar
3)
Research
project in association with one of the institutes
4)
Professional
training
The seminars and tutoring will be conducted in close
relationship with the respective institutes and centres that are related to the
majors. Therefore, the centre will also house two dozen of research institutes,
along with their faculty and research staff.
4. Study and Learning Process
1) All study programs will begin with a pro-seminar on
the methodology of the Study of Life.
2) Peer groups will be formed as participatory and
cooperative seminars in and around research institutes with the leadership of
faculty members.
3) Independent study by individuals or by a few persons
will be promoted under the leadership of faculty member(s).
4) Training Programs as well as Study Programs will be
closely related to the life situation.
5) Cyber Space will be utilized as complementary to the
regular process, and Cyber Graduate courses will be opened.
6) An International Network will be built for close
cooperation among faculty as well as students in their study and learning.
7) Concentrated, intensive seminars will be utilized on
weekends, Mondays and vacation periods.
The Scholar Exchange Program will be promoted
domestically and internationally with graduate research institutes. APGS will
actively promote student research projects on the international level as well
as international student exchange programs.
5. Library and Data Center
The Library and Data Center will be a central feature
of the infrastructure for the graduate school and research and study centers
and institutes. Seminars will be held in the Library and Data Center as well as
the institutes.
1) Reference Library for Research
2) Professional Journals and Periodicals, Books
3) Global-Scale Cyber Library Network
6. Cyber Education Center and International Cyber
Network
1) A Cyber Education Center and Network are being
designed.
2) A Cyber Communication Network has been established
to serve Asian partners as well as Korean partners of churches and NGOs
(ChristianNet and PeaceNet).
3) A
website: WWW.OIKOZOE.ORG is in operation.
4)
An Asian Cyber Graduate Program is being designed a) to supplement the regular
program, b) to reach Asian and African students as well as other international
students, and c) to reach church leaders among the 6 million members of the
Korean diaspora communities around the world.
7.
Publishing House: MOKMIN PRESS
1)
A Journal on the Study of Life
will be published.
2) Textbooks and research and study results will be published.
3)
Web Publications will be available.
8. Ecumenical Network
The Asian Centre of Spirituality for Peace and Life
will be established in cooperation with Asian Partners. The centre is intended
to provide advanced ecumenical training programs on spirituality for Asian
ecumenical leaders in cooperation with Asian ecumenical partners.
V. Cooperative
Community of Study and Research Centers and Scholars:
Institutes and centers that have joined the Advanced Institute for the
Study of Life.[i]
VI. CAMPUS
1. The
Cenral Campus with a building of 600 pyong (1 pyong = 3.3 square meters) with a
network of Academies (Institutes and Seminar Facilities) in Seoul, in Tokyo, in
Pyung Yang, and elsewhere in Asia (Afica) is being designed. A building of 600
pyong at the central campus is planned, along with research facilities and a
condominium for faculty and students.
2. “Hyangtowon,” the second research campus, is
constructed by the members of the cooperative community of scholars. 20 one-room
(10-pyong) units for study and lodging, a seminar room, a library, and a chapel
will be added.
[1] The fundamental notion is
that the people are the subject of history.
[4] Social Sciences and Ecology: Within the framework of ecological
integrity, economy, politics and society will be studied to enhance life and to
preserve ecological integrity.
(1) Historical Studies: Within the paradigm of life,
integrated historical studies will be pursued, from the history of ecology to the
history of life as a whole.
(2) Life Feminist Studies: Life has been determined greatly
by the gender conflict. Women’s welfare, policies for women, the bio-tech
industry, women’s health, sexuality and other women’s issues will be studied
within the paradigm of life.
(3) Peace Studies: Peace is central to life, so the
graduate school will carry out the integrated study of peace as a foundation of
life. This will concentrate on peace in North East Asia as the first step of
peace for life on earth.
(4) Ecological Studies: This study will concentrate on the
industrial civilization, which threatens the ecosystem. It will promote a
philosophy of conviviality as well as the study of policies for ecological
integrity.
5.
(1) Scriptural Studies: Biblical studies will be a central
part of the integral study, which will also involve an inter-textual and
multi-textual reading of scriptural texts of Asian religions.
(2) Historical Studies: The program will read the history
of Christianity in the context of the general history of life on earth. Special
emphasis will be given to studies of peoples and victimized life.
(3) Theoretical Studies: Christian theological studies will
be expanded to include the general religious thinking of all religions.
(4) Practical Studies: It is in this praxis-oriented
program that we will find the most inter-disciplinary process. Holistic action
(ethics of life with regard to justice, peace and integrity of creation) will
be studied to enhance life as well as to deepen the spiritual foundation of
life. Liturgy as a celebration of life in the Spirit, Life Diakonia to care for
life, and Healing of Life will be some of the programs.
[6] Formation
of Methodology and Building of Theoretical Foundation for the Study of
Life: pursuit of the integral nature of
the study through inter-disciplinary methods, and consistent building of
theories on the basis of practice—the Praxis of Life.
(1) Promotion of Integral Studies on the Specific Issues of
Life: Peace Studies, Political Economy of Life, Politics of Life and
Participation, Social Justice and Life Security, Culture of Life and
Creativity, and Ecology and Conviviality of Life, etc.
(2) This study program will be closely related to the
activities of the Advanced Institute for the Study of Life.
[i] 1.
Ecumenical
Institute for Doing Theology
Since 1978
the Institute has trained more than 120 pastors for the professional ministry.
It offers D.Min. degrees in cooperation with San Fransisco Theological Seminary
and New York Theological Seminary.
2.
Christian
Center for Asian Studies
CCAS has
carried out a number of policy development programs as well as pro-seminars for
doctoral students since 1988. It has conducted China seminars and many travel
seminars for mission studies in Asia, Eastern Europe and Europe. The Center has
trained more than 300 leaders through its advanced program on critical issues
for Korean Christianity.
3.
Institute for the Study of Christian Communication
This is
the program of the South-North Center for Communication Studies, which has been
carried out for about ten years. It has undergirded peacenet.or.kr as the major
ecumenical and NGO electronic network in Korea. From now on it will carry out degree
programs in Faith and Communication as well as ecumenical communication
studies.
4
Southeast
Asia Graduate School
of Theology
This
institute has trained Th.M. and Th.D. students in Asian theologies in
cooperation with the Graduate School of Theology in Southeast Asia. Currently
about 70 students are enrolled.
5
Korea
Institute for the Study of Professional Ministry)
KISPM has
published major volumes on Christian liturgy resources. Three series have been
published and they are in wide circulation in Korea.
6.
Korea
Institute for the Study of the Bible
This
Institute publishes regular Bible Study series for pastors since 1995. It has
held several international workshops on Minjung Bible Study and popular reading
of the Bible in cooperation with the World Council of Churches.
7.
Institute
for the Study of Great Peace in East Asia
This is a
new institute for the study of peace in North East Asia. A CWM grant will
support a major study on peace in Northeast Asia; and at present a study on
policy alternatives for reunification is under way.
8.
Institute
for the Study of a Political Economy of Life
A policy
study on “life-enhancing economy” is being carried out by this institute, which
is working jointly with the Oikozoe (Household of Life) Cooperative for organic
farming development in Korea. It will formulate alternative policies for an “economy
of life.”
9.
Korea
Institute for Reformation Theologies
As
successor to the Reformation Studies for Korean Churches program, KIRT will
continue to study the relevance of the Reformation theologies for the Asian
churches in the context of globalization.
10
Institute
for the Study of Diakonia for
Life
With a CWM
grant, ISDL is designing a major study and training program on Diakonia for
Life in North Korea and Northeast Asia.
Based on a unity of study and practice, ISDL has studied a diakonal bank
idea in connection with OIKOCREDIT in Holland.
11.
Institute for the Study of Philosophy and Thought on Life
The Study
of Life in relation to alternative philosophical developments of the East and
West is the main focus of this institute.
12
Institute
for the Study of Theology of Life
This
Institute is reviewing the WCC studies on the theology of life. Its major focus will be the building of a
theological foundation for the Study of Life.
13.
Institute for the Study of Religion and
Society in Korea
ISRSK has
inherited the mandate to carry out studies on religion and society, which CCAS
has already initiated through its major studies on Christianity in Korea, and
on other Korean religions. ISRSK plans
to undertake major sociological studies to develop macro-ecumenical strategies
for the life movement, in close cooperation with the Christian Institute for
the Study of Justice and Development.
14.
Institute for the Study of Africa, Central and
South America and Asia
This
institute is designed to develop a Southern network for the Study of Life.
Initially an Africa-Asia Ecumenical Network for the Study of Life will be tried
in cooperation with global and regional ecumenical agencies.
15.
Institute
for the Study of Asian Religions
The Study
of Life will dig into Asian religious traditions for wisdom for life. The
institute will develop religious textbooks for the public school system on the
basis of the paradigm of the Study of Life.
16.
Center for
Women and Life
This
institute will play a major role in the Study of Life from the eco-feminist
perspective.
17
Asian
Institute for Economy and Ethics
Globalization
should not only be evaluated by ethical rules; in addition, alternative policies
should be developed and implemented as ethical action. This Institute is
studying Asian economic ethics from this perspective.
18
Korea Institute for Psychotherapy
The Korean
Institute for Psychotherapy has trained about 120 persons as theraputic counsellors,
and published a dozen volumes of resource books. With international
cooperation, it will carry out advanced degree programs. One of its major
concerns is to study personality and community issues which rise out of the
divided situation of the Korean people.
19
Korea
Institute for Culture, Music and Liturgy
There have
been major developments in indigenous liturgical practice, especially in the
use of Korean traditional music. Major efforts will be given to the full scale
development of liturgy for the whole Christian community in Korea.
20.
Korea
Institute for the Study of Church Architecture
21.
Christian Institute for the Study of Asian
Thought
This
Institute will study Asian religious and secular thought, for Asian theological
development.
22
Institute
for the Study of Inter-contextual Mission in Asia
ISMA has
done historical studies in search of alternative Asian missiological
development. Major attention will now be given to alternative missiology for
Asia, reflecting critically upon Asian mission histories.
23
Center
for the Study of Health and Life
This
center is comprised of a group of doctors who have established health
cooperatives as an alternative to the prevailing medical system. It will carry
out study and training programs for health and life.
24.
Christian Institute for Economic Life
This
research and study center for Economic Life, is aimed at Minjung (grassroots)
economic improvement. It has been operating since 1990, providing tax
consultancy and Minjung economic information.
25. OIKOZOE (Economy of Life) –an
organic agricultural cooperative
生命學 (The Study of Life) is being established as a new way (paradigm) of
enjoying life in the cosmos. The objective of this project is (1) to catalyze
and assist committed farmers to plan life economy projects, such as organic
farms; (2) to facilitate the learning and training process for life economy
projects; (3) to facilitate small experimental farms for life economy; (4) to
study life economies; (5) to facilitate communication and sharing among persons
who are committed to life economies through local, national, regional and
global networks; and (6) to facilitate the organic farming certification
process by organizing a network of organic farmers, by studying certification
systems and by training personnel for the certification process.
26. Sandol Cultural Center for Workers
Sandol is an alternative church community
serving the minjung (poor workers) and has operated a cultural center for
workers since 1982. It has joined the Advanced Institute in its search to
clarify its life as a faith community in the context of globalization. There
will be programs for workers as well as alternative programs for Sandol Church
as a post-denominational community in the macro-ecumenical context.
l
The cooperative community is composed of the above self-reliant and free
institutes and centers concerned with study and practice for life. The members
of this community belong to the Advanced Institute, which will help support
them financially, academically and professionally, even as they are
self-reliant.
This community will be operated freely and
cooperatively to carry out studies, research, training and other
programs/projects.
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