| Notwithstanding its contribution to subjectivity, modernity has produced the problems of instrumentalization and dehumanization of the modern person and society by its overestimation, theologically speaking idolatry of human rationality, which has objectified even the subjectivity itself. Modernity has distorted the existential meaning of responsibility for others by overemphasizing and overly depending on its rationality. Late modernity tries to resolve the problem of modernity by the hermeneutics of suspicion. However, the remedy for the disease does not depend on how it will escape from the trap of rationality but on whether or not it accepts and trusts in God's presence and faithfulness for human beings and surrender to God's sovereign rule over itself in accordance with God's providence, only in which the rationality will correctly function for the redeemed life.;With this perspective, the purpose of this dissertation is a Reformed Christian proposal for the recovery of a current economy, which has resulted in the current political and economic problems such as haves and have-nots and the destruction of natural, social, and spiritual environments. Modern economy, as a part of a modern institution, has been developed by the ethos of autonomy over-trusting in human subjectivity and rationality. This modern ethos has created so called unintended consequences of alienation and dehumanization while losing the Christian legacies of faith, the genuine sense of responsibility in the presence of God and the caring for the quality of life necessary for the commonwealth. Modernity has believed that it can make sense of the world by its autonomous principles whether it is in an individual or a communal sense. However, this dissertation argues that the current economy has to recover the sense of integrity and responsibility of life in the presence of God by recovering faith in God and God's faithfulness in providence with the eschatological meaning of an economy and the divine capitals for the redeemed economy. |
