The Salvation Army was founded upon the teachings of early Christianity - redeeming the poor, fighting capitalism religiously - bearing its roots in the revivalism of John Wesley's Methodism. Given the social significance of missions and the vast amount of written records about them, it is ironic that there is not so much literature on the sociology of missions. Although there are valuable documents of mission movements, many records of mission works, the monographs from the mission fields, these documents rarely have been utilized from the sociological point of view. With this in mind, in order to estimate the reputation of the Salvation Army, which celebrated its hundredth anniversary in 2008, the author has analyzed a collection of newspaper clippings of its activity between 1997 and 2007. The findings are as follows: the Salvation Army in the country historically avoided engaging in the political realm of transforming social and political structures, as its mandate is to "save souls" from suffering eternal damnations. In other words, the Salvation Army's individualistic emphasis on moral perfection can be compared with Liberation Theology's focus on structural evil that is curtailing the quality of human life. Although the Salvation Army lacks in biblical emphasis on social justice, it asserts that all people bear dignity and are equal before God; they are trying to build the Kingdom of God one person at a time. Unlike Buddhism or Roman Catholicism, the social legitimacy of Protestant Christianity in Korea is deteriorating. The Salvation Army, though small but sound, may soothe the current crises of Korean churches.

The term, ‘missional church,’ is a common term among missiologists. John Wesley’s (1703-1791) missionary career (10/21/1735- 02/01/ 1738) is considerably well known. ‘Missionary Wesley’ indicates Wesley as a missionary to America. Wesley was indeed missional before and during his missionary service, but it was after his missionary career when his missional abilities shined. Thus, the author suggests using a brand-new term ‘missional Wesley.’ The focus of this article is stated in the title: From Missionary Wesley to Missional Wesley. This study explores three significant missiological implications of Wesley’s life and ministry: Wesley’s dilemma, Wesley’s assurance, and Wesley’s renewal movement. The seemingly failed mission of Wesley to America was partially due to conflict between sending agency (the Anglican Society for the Propagation of the Gospel) and missionary (John Wesley). The author coins a new term, ‘Wesley’s dilemma,’ for this common conflict in Christian mission. This article discusses the centripetal mission and centrifugal mission, offering suggestions and recommendations regarding ‘Wesley’s Dilemma.’ What Wesley experienced at Aldersgate on May 24th in 1738 was an assurance. Wesley centered to the right object of his faith, Jesus Christ. To be concrete, it was not just the commonly used term, ‘Wesley's conversion,’ but Wesley’s conversion to Christ. Wesley’s assurance was a stepping stone for becoming missional Wesley. From then on, Wesley’s life and ministry was focused on church renewal. Inventing and reinventing small groups was where Wesley’s genius shone. Small groups (societies, classes, bands) were places for discipline and fellowship in Wesley’s renewal movement. It was a system of discipline-in-community and fellowship-in-community. John R. W. Stott’s definition of koinonia, ‘sharing-in, sharing-out, and sharing-with’ was realized in small groups. The itineracy of the ‘lay’ leader was crucial for this success. The author concludes this article by quoting and paraphrasing Stephen B. Bevans and Roger P. Schroeder: “If to be church is to be in mission, to be in mission is to be responsive to the demands of the gospel in particular contexts, to be continually ‘reinventing’ itself as it struggles with and approaches new situations, new peoples, new cultures and new questions.” Missional Wesley was indeed a champion of contextualization and reinvention of structure.

Since 1884, many western Protestant missionaries came to Korea. The missionaries initially treated of the spiritual perspective of Koreans as superstitious and ignorance-oriented. Especially in the field of medicine, the Western perspective seemed to be far advanced than the Korean traditional perspective. According to the Korean traditional view, sicknesses was in many cases caused by intrusions of spiritual beings. Therefore, to cure the sick, one had to cast out those spiritual beings out of the bodies through placations or by force. With such perceptions, Korean people were not able to overcome the hard situations caused by the contagious diseases such as pestilence, small pox, and typoid fever. Western missionaries could take advantage on those matters in order to help Koreans and thereby achieving the trust of Korean government. Even though Western science and medicine proved their effectiveness through such medical works, excessive reliance can cause one to fall into the idolatry of worshipping medicine instead of God. Throughout the development in the area of science and technology, Westerners have tended to look everything through the scientific perspectives. Through such trends Western societies were believed to run the course of secularization throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. God and His supernatural world have been marginalized especially in public areas. According to Professor Paul G. Hiebert, even missionaries with severe Western cultural backgrounds have difficulties in understanding the spirit world of the native people. Early missionaries to Korea were not exceptions. They also had difficulties when they first met the Koreans and tried to understand their spiritual view points. In contrast to the Westerners who generally do not recognize the spiritual beings around them, the Koreans recognized the spiritual beings such as ghosts, ancestors in almost every aspect of their lives. Koreans were famous in maintaining the practices related to such spiritual beings throughout their ancient history. When the missionaries first observed practices related to the spiritual beings, they judged Koreans to be ingnorant or superstitious. However, the missionaries continuously tried to understand the people and their worldviews. When they were unable to understand the Korean worldview on the spiritual beings, they resorted not to the Western naturalistic perspective but to the Bible. Through comparison between the Korean traditional perspectives and the Biblical perspectives, they discovered that the Biblical perspectives were more similar to the Korean traditional perspectives. And with careful observation and examination of the Korean ministers’ deliverance works, they changed their thought about the spirit world. The demons and spiritual beings which were regarded to harass Korean people were not supterstitions or fatacies. They were real beings confirmed by the Bible. The native Korean ministers contributed a lot in the paradigm shift from Western perspective to the Korean perspective on the reality of spiritual beings. The Korean ministers viewed the Bible differently. They believed Bible stories where the possessed were released by Jesus and his disciples. The faith of Korean ministers proved to be simple and firm enough to follow the practices of Jesus and his disciples in casting out demons. When the missionaries heard about the stories of deliverances by the Korean ministers and believers, they did not stop but rather carefully examined such behaviors in light of the Bible. The final criteria of missionaries were not the western but the Biblical perspective. With such criteria, they accepted and recognized the deliverance ministries of the Korean believers. Some missionaries, when asked if they could cast out demons out of troubled, succeeded in the deliverance ministries. In my estimation, the Nevius mission plan contributed greatly in making harmony and cooperation between the missionaries and the Korean ministers. God brought Koreans who were troubled with spiritual bondage into the Kingdom of God through such faithful servants of God. The reasons the early protestant missionaries to Korea brought such great success in evangelizing Korea were foremost their deep reliance to the Bible as the Word of God and secondly their deep understanding of Koreans and their ways of thinking.

The purpose of this study is to search Mattie Ingold’s life, the first lady missionary doctor served in Jeonla province. She is known as a founder of the Jesus Hospital in Jeon Ju, 108years old teaching hospital with 600 beds. But her contribution and limitation as a lady doctor was not properly evaluated. She was very well prepared medical missionary graduating Women’s Medical College in Baltimore with the first prize. She had passion for mission to Korean so much that she would not return home for this people. The Rock Hill First Presbyterian Church as a sending church was also very mission oriented enough to take care of her medical education for 5 years before sending her to Korea. However her ministry period as a medical missionary was only from 1898 to 1904. It seems not so long as to raise question if there were any reasons to quit medical ministry while serving in Jeon Ju until 1925. This study traced the Mattie Ingold’s life and circumstances she had faced at the end of 19th century and early 20th century during the Japanese colonialism. As other medical missionaries did in many area of mission fields she played an important role in introducing the Christianity by bridging the gap with the traditional worldview or with the Confucianism. Her warm hearted medical care was definitely contributed to get rid of xenophobia prevailing in those days just few years after the Donghak farmer’s revolutionary movement. Even though, as a lady doctor, her medical work was restricted to caring ladies and children, her zeal for evangelism made her translate the Christian Cathechism Primer into Korean which has been used by all missionaries in Jeonla area. She rather used her limitation as a merit by involving more actively in home visiting and providing medical care for ladies and children which was not easily available to men. She must have struggled with xenophobia, male superiority complex and the health issue of herself which could have shrink her back from active medical work. But most depressing factor might have been the mission policy based on dualistic view on the Christian mission that medical ministry was just subordinate to the evangelistic ministry and that the medical care was just a bait for evangelism. This policy could have resulted in restriction in allocating resources for medical ministry. Moreover, at that time, even mission agency had male dominating atmosphere that ladies could not have a voice in decision making. This study may provide a lesson which is worth in helping individual missionaries of today’s mission by revealing that how the policy of a mission society and the contemporary worldview affects on the individual missionary’s ministry.

This thesis is about John Thomas; the first missionary sent to the KEHC, the first superintendent and the first dean of Kyungsung Bible Institute. The coverage of this thesis begins from his birth in the U.K. and his ministries, how he came to Korea and his ministry in Korea from 1910-1911. In total, John Thomas spent 10 years serving in Korea, therefore assessing his ministry is somewhat out of proportion, however this thesis will focus on the background of his calling to Korea and the beginning of God’s divine works. 1. John Thomas had evident experience in the Fourfold Gospel. 2. His devotion and faith made him a clear model as Christ’s servant. 3. He was a man of prayer. 4. Through the successful ministry in the U.K. he demonstrated the blessings of God’s presence. 5. He made a network of supporters for prayer and financial aid. 6. He was a prominent Evangelical leader of his time and was selected as the main speaker at the annual OMS conference in 1911. 7. He had a call to preach the holiness element. This calling began to spread in the other denominations and missionaries also. 8. He not only loved the lost souls of Korea but also cared for the people of the world. 9. His ministry had a harmony of teaching and ministering. Through his character which was greatly influenced by the holiness element gave him authority to impress many people. 10. Although he had difficulty in learning Korean, his input and effort was vital in setting the foundations of the KEHC and the Bible Institute. 11. The early records of his ministry which influenced many denominations and other missionaries in Korea and Japan shows how influential he must have been in the later years. 12. He contributed to the printing of 10,000 copies of the New Testament, helped set up administrative procedures for KEHC and the Bible Institute and his teaching, church founding and faithful mission works show the bright future ahead. This research focuses on the early days of John Thomas’s mission. There are still more research to be done about his character and the latter part of his ministry. However, the fact that a man of God, such as John Thomas was called to serve as the first missionary sent to the KEHC, the first superintendent and the first dean of Kyungsung Bible Institute proves God’s purpose toward the KEHC and STU. Furthermore, through this research we need to find the elements that need to be continued and carried out in this day and age. Therefore it is inevitable the existence of holiness is revealed not only in Korea but also worldwide. This is the core value of KEHC and STU’s existence.

Today is the era of welfare. The desire of social welfare has increased rapidly because of the increase of the average life-span and the rate of the aged people over 65 years old among total population. With this social trend, the necessity of welfare for missionaries for effective missionary work has increased. We can find the biblical foundation for missionary welfare where the Bible mentioned reliefs and welfare in the community of faith. A missionary is a member of the community. Even if a missionary is a servant and instrument of God, he/she is a human being. A missionary has family members. He/she can also get a cultural shock and reverse cultural shock, and an unexpected accident. He/she is aging and shall be retired. He/she, therefore, also needs welfare care for his/her physical, mental, and spiritual health in the community, which can increase the effectiveness in their missional works. There are several dimensions of member cares: 1) Care for physical health, 2) Care for emotional and mental health, 3) Care for retired missionaries. In terms of care for physical health of a missionary, Korean missionary societies are further behind than the International Missionary Societies (ig. SIM, OM, OMF, WEC). They have prepared medical and insurance supporting systems very well. In this respect, Korean church needs to establish this kind of missionary infra. For emotional and mental state, a missionary needs sabbatical year for healing, refreshing and maintaining his/her healthy mental state for effective missional work. For the retired missionaries, a supporting system for housing, foods supply and medical service should be provided. His/her various experiences need to be utilized for developing a strategy and policy for a effective missional work of the future generations. Accordingly, we must prepare a system and policy for missionary member care in order to enhance effective missional works within this welfare and aging times. For this, this study has addressed several dimensions of policy and methodology: For a effective missionary member care, fulfillment of desire for self-realization of missionary, establishment of an appropriate organization and a policy for member care with an effective management for care for crisis/accidental incident, a practical strategy at the denominational level, cooperation for win-win strategy among denominations, sending church and missionary societies should be considered. Missional business strategy and brand standardization for 'missional marketing' have been pointed. First, fulfillment of desire for self-realization. According to A. H. Maslow, the desire of self-realization is the highest desire. A missionary also has this desire. Korean church is lacking of this system for fulfilling the desire of self-realization, especially after a missionary retires. Second, organization and policy for caring member. a Community needs an effective organization for achieving its objective. So is a missionary society. Mission can be effective when members in the community can be managed effectively. Third care for crisis/accidental event. A missionary can also meet crisis/accidental event. Only effective management and care can increase the effectiveness of mission. Four, practice for missionary member care. Missionaries are spiritual soldiers. So they need care and management system and practical strategy at the denominational level. Denomination, sending church and society must cooperate one another for win-win strategy. They need missional business strategy like a business company. Through brand standardization, they must try to increase the value of brand. I wish to call it 'missional marketing'.

The objective of this study is to clarify the early state of modern architecture, specifically mission architecture, with the introduction of the Christianity, and for the goal it deals with the architectural activities of pioneer missionaries. Especially it is a piece in a series of those researches after on Graham Lee, and it is focused on the other representative missionary, R. M. Wilson, A. M. Sharrocks, and C. A. Clark. Although coming in the capacity of a medical doctor or an educator, they should play all kinds of roles, such as carpenters, educators, and officers. For this mission, even they didn't have a professional knowledge for construction, they should carried on to establish mission compounds, only with their experience and informations. In this process they needed to be assisted by Korean carpenters, surely. The architectures born by them-selves are designed with a unique eclectic style compounded with those of Korean traditional and occidental. That is to say, the pioneer missionaries made a profound influence to create a new tradition of modern architecture in Korea, which is called as Korean-occidental eclectic style in the period of transition. Moreover, some pioneer missionary, such as Sharrocks, took a part in education of architectural skills. The educated carpenters seemed to be called from outside, and the unique styles could get spread away. On this point this paper has the meaning to clarify historically the continuous development of the Korean architecture through the survey on their activities, on the contrary of the existed recognition that Korean modern architecture has been evaluated to be imported from outside; therefore having a crevice with the its own architectural tradition.

Since Korea disclaimed to open the ports, Korean architecture has met the impetuous transformation. Although there would be various factors of this transformation, the new-coming architecture by missionary seemed to be a significant one, and many researches have been carried out on this theme in diverse viewpoints. However, because these researches have preponderated on the Catholic tradition, it is deficient for clarify the whole history of mission architecture. Therefore, this research has the meaning to enrich the history of Korean modern architecture by making balance. First of all, this paper is focused on the activities of one missionary, Graham Lee. He is a practical missionary at the beginning, his architecture made a critical influence in Korean traditional architecture. Graham Lee was born in Rock Island, Illinois, 1861, and he determined to become a missionary through grown up. He spent his boyhood by working as a plumber for his purpose and studied in a university afterward. Graduating of McComick Theological Seminary, he was nominated as a pioneer of Pyeng Yang Mission Station and set foot in Korea, September of 1892. Since then he started to erect missionary facilities in Pyeng Yang, such as Well House(1898), Pyeng Yang Central Church(1900-1901), Pyeng Yang Academy(1902). These all his works are designed with eclectic style which shows western and Korean traditional style intermingled. This unique characteristic made a profound influence to the Korean mission architecture afterwards. Especially, the L-type plan of Pyeng Yang Central Church, which is first shown by him, is recognized very unique, and this plan type had been spread all over the country. Therefore the L-type plan became the peculiar feature of the early Korean churches. Furthermore, working with Korean carpenters, he taught them new skills of modem buildings. After that, they were expanded out northern part of Korea and took the roles of master builders. According to this expansion, his particular style had got spread and had been settled as a unique eclectic style in Korean modern architecture. In the conclusion, he is evaluated to be a critical pioneer missionary, who left a big influence on the frame work of Korean modern architecture in the transitional times.

에스더 쉴즈(Esther L. Shields, 한국이름 秀日斯, 1868-1940)는 미국 북 장로교 파송 한국 간호선교사이다. 쉴즈는 평생 결혼을 하지 않았고 1897 년부터 1938년 만 70세로 선교현장인 한국에서 은퇴할 때까지 40여년을 의료선교와 복음전도 그리고 간호교육과 사회사업에 일생을 바친 인물이 다. 그녀는 “세브란스의 천사”라 불리울 정도로 봉사의 삶을 살았다. 그러 나 그녀에 대한 연구는 그간 많이 이루어지지 않았는데 이는 그녀가 의료 선교사였지만 의사가 아닌 간호사였고, 남성이 아닌 여성이었기 때문일 가 능성이 높다. 쉴즈는 미국에서 간호사 교육을 받았고 충분한 임상을 경험 한 후 선교사로 자원하여 한국에 왔다. 그녀는 세브란스병원에서 정식 간 호사로 사역하였으나 열악했던 당시 한국의 의료상황과 과중한 업무로 인 해 탈진하여 건강을 해쳐 병원 사역에서 벗어나 평북 선천에서 전도와 교 육 사역을 감당하기도 하였다. 그러나 이후 세브란스로 복귀하여 은퇴할 때까지 이 곳에서 간호교육과 간호사들을 위한 사역 그리고 병원에서의 전 도와 사회봉사 활동에 매진하였다. 이 논문에서는 쉴즈의 선교사 지원 이전의 삶과 한국에서의 선교사역을 시기적으로 정리하고 있으며 그녀의 선교사역이 갖는 특징을 몇 가지로 정 리하였다. 이를테면 그녀는 조직과 협동의 중요성을 잘 알았고 이를 매우 중시하여 사역을 진행했으며 그것이 오늘날 한국간호사협회와 같은 기구 로 자라났음을 알 수 있다.