The aim of this study is to elucidate the basic concept, content and thought of Martin Luther’s mission, which are contain edinhissermons. So this study triestocriticize Gustav Warneck’s improper view, that Luther neglected the mission for the Gospel or there was no missionary try for him. It also has the attempt, David Bosch’s view to highlight, that Luther was a creative and original thinker for the missio dei. Further it tries to expose a significant claim, that Luther had very positive influence on the Christian Mission. To understand the mission, which is presented in Luther’s sermon, one must first analyze it and elucidate the main characteristics of Luther’s context of his sermon. Luther gave over 3000 sermons, so it is not overstated to say that he truly was a man who preached every day. Thus he is said to be a man of sermon. Despite that fact Luther’s work has been neglected by further studies about his sermons. That is why it is difficult for scholars to further study Luther’s mission in the context of his sermon. However, Luther’s sermons were performed to spread Protestantism during the Reformation, thus one may regard it as “Mission’s sermon (Missionspredigt)”. This Study focuses mainly on Luther’s sermon patterns which are dogmatism, postillen, and educational sermon forms. We can ascertain that the basic characteristics of sermons are directly linked to missionary characteristics. To be specific, the place of pastoral duties becomes the place in which the mission takes place, the core of the sermon is the bible, and the audience is inhabitants that are in proclamation of the mission’s place. The functions of the mission which are the place of the mission, the natives which regard the mission, and the spread of the word are directly connected to Luther’s sermon approach toward the salvation of the souls and the goal of the mission which sees the salvation of the soul as the salvation of the life. Especially, Luther’s sermons for his Reformation are connected to the Missionary Movement. As state above there are two forms of Luther’s sermons. (1) The subject of the sermon tells about the and “Easter” service. The mission sermon à going to the end of the world and telling about the god’s word. Thus this is the proclamation to spread god’s words to the end of the world and save men’s soul. This is called Keryigmatic Sermon. (2) In the sermon the delegated order for the mission is embedded in the four gospel this is “Spread the word”. In the context of his sermons he embedded the mission orders of the four Gospels and also the proclamation of Jesus Christ during important worships. This he applied also identically to the Jews and Turks. Luther thought that if he showed them Jesus love that this would be mission. Today, spreading the word takes forms such as showing Jesus’ love, practice it, this is the most essential and basic ways of the mission. Understanding mission in Luther’s sermon is the root of every Protestant Mission. It is dangerous to estimate the understanding of the mission in Luther’s sermon according to the present concept of mission as it had been stated 500 years ago. We have to stop being surprised, as we look at the interpretation the Understanding of mission in Luther’s sermon as it is the basic, starting point, process, and context of the present understanding of the mission.

This study is to focus on the contribution and application in practical models for aging welfare mission in Korea. The number of aging peoples has so rapidly increased from 2000s. This apparence has service some important as the aging welfare of the Korean is being considered. The practical models for aging welfare mission are very significant sphere of social welfare mission. This article is analyzed models and practices for aging welfare through social service in the church community. The church should be realize the missional direction toward the social responsibility. The church can also provide service not only spiritual needs but also social needs toward the aging poor peoples. By doing this way, the church and government can support together hand in hand to achieve better environment for spiritual and physical living. For this aging welfare mission, I want to recommend several suggestions to the church. Firstly, we can be recognize mission of aging welfare to church community. We should be understand that the church must practice important social responsibility for social welfare. Secondly, We need a networking and partnership among the church, NGO, and government for social service. Finally, We can use materially, financially, culturally practical resources in the church toward aging welfare mission. We need flexible strategy and plan in various missional direction for development of aging welfare mission in Korea society.

Matteo Ricci’s missionary work in China was a remarkable cross-cultural mission in the 16th Century. Matteo Ricci introduced Christian teaching to the Chinese literati. By adopting the Chinese language and culture, he was able to enter the center of the Chinese society which was normally closed to foreigner. His missionary approach was effective. Ricci did not approach the Chinese culture with superiority like other Western missionaries. He behaved that he came to China to learn. Ricci made notable sacrifices to study the language―he had learned to speak, read and write Chinese, the habits and customs of the Chinese, as to make them his own. Ricci’s second cultural approach is to conform life-style with the socio-ethical system. When Ruggieri and Ricci first entered China together in 1583, they were dressed as Buddhist monks. Later, Ricci found that the monks he met were neither learned nor well respected. Ricci decided to carry his religious testimony to the very heart of the society, and for this, he adopted the life style and dress of educated Confucians. Ricci had grown his hair and beard and put on the scholar’s robes. Ricci’s third approach was to write many moral writings. It was an academic approach. Ricci’s moral writings had attracted the Confucian literati, even by those did not sympathize with his religious ideas. In T’ien-chu shih yi, Ricci mentioned that T’ien-chu [Lord of Heaven] in Christianity was same as Shang-ti [Sovereign Lord] in Confucianism. Ricci’s fourth cultural approach was the introduction of Western science and technology. Ricci displayed world map, western clocks, Venetian prism, European paintings and books. Ricci was accepted widely among the literati by his knowledge of mathematics and other sciences; by the curious objects he had brought, and even by his alleged knowledge of alchemy. Ricci’s fifth cultural approach was to respect Chinese rites and customs. Through discussion with the Chinese literati, Ricci indirectly introduced the Christian point of view on the various problems and matters. His Chinese disciples demonstrated that to accept the Christian faith did not imply abandoning one’s own culture, nor mean diminishing loyalty to one’s own country and traditions, but rather that the faith offered them to serve their country. By this reason, Jesuit missionaries allowed to worship at a shrine of Confucius and to perform a religious service in an ancient rite. In fact, an ancient rite was very delicate and sensitive issue at that time. It requires careful approach through theological reflection and evaluation because cultural accommodation may change to relativism or syncretism. As a missionary, Ricci never forgot his ultimate goal: the preaching the Gospel and the conversion of China. Ricci’s missionary work in China is still a model of Asian missionary work. Ricci’s missionary method through cultural accommodation was vital and actual as ever. It is necessary for the effective missionary works to understand the social structure of the field. Without destroying or ignoring their own culture and customs, we can carefully make a connection between Christianity and culture and customs of the field.

The aim of the article is to outline the history of the mission of the minjung church from 1983 to 2005 and to identify its new missionary tasks in a changed world. At the end of the cold war, the minjung movement in general, the minjung mission in particular, seemed to be unnecessary any more. After the economic crisis of 1997, however, the minjung mission played an important role for taking care of victims of the structural adjustment programs of many corporations, and for establishing alternative communities. Its history divides into four periods: the formation period (1983-1987), the development period (1988-1992), the transformation period (1993-1997), and the professional period (1998-2005). Each period deals with its socio-economic, political, cultural background and minjung mission’s main contents, characteristics, and limitation. The history of the mission of the minjung church is interpreted by the results of the social biographies of 26 minjung pastors. According to their social biographies, minjung pastors changed themselves in the process of the minjung mission rather than changed the minjung. They rediscovered the importance of the Bible and religion in relation to the social change. Also they found negative aspects of the minjung. They regarded spirituality and life as pillars for the forthcoming minjung mission. Some reflections on mission of the minjung church was carried out through analysing the relationship between faith and ideology, the dilemma of identity-involvement, positive understanding of religion, understanding of minjung, and theories of community organization and conscientization. In a changed world, spirituality, the minjung and life are identified as new tasks for the minjung mission.

Yun Chi-ho(1865-1945) was the first Korean to study theology in the United States of America. After returning to Korea, he contributed largely to Korean independence movement and Christian higher education. This paper examines Yun’s thought on mission and education, claiming that Yun was a pioneering theologian of mission in paving a way to renewing the Christian education for life. He criticized the racially-distorted theological position of Western missionaries and changed the direction of mission from evangelism for conversion to transformation in individual life and social structure. As his diary shows, Yun’s early experience of the USA allowed him to recognize the racial prejudice of American missionaries toward indigenous people in mission fields. He argued that non-Christians should be treated as the same spiritual and intellectual beings as the missionaries. For him, Christian mission was a necessary step for widening the freedom of religion among non-Christians because it gave them more options to cultivate themselves both intellectually and morally. He believed that it was not human agents but God that was the ultimate subject of mission. His participation at the World’s Parliament of Religions strengthened his confidence in Christian mission. At the World Missionary Conference in 1910, Yun presented his ideas of mission to Western missionaries and theologians. According to him, Korean Christianity was Bible and common people centered. Pointing out three dangers(① the revival of Buddhism and Confucianism, ② the introduction of Western philosophy, and ③ the emphasis on sudden conversion), he put the principle of Christ over the first principle in the matter of financial planning and distribution decision. He believed that the self-determination of indigenous leaders through the cooperation with missionaries was more important than the needs of missionaries and their home churches. For Yun, Christian mission was deeply related to Christian education for life. He contended that Christian life was the life of faith and community open to culture and the world. In conclusion, Yun proposed a viable form of Korean Christianity which seemed to be more sympathetic to the hearts of Korean people and their culture in the early 20th century Korean context. His contemporaries, however, failed to recognize the importance of vision and strategy developed by Koreans themselves.

This article aims to analyze and apply to the Great Revival Movement of Pyugyang 1907 by using the revitalization movement model of Anthony Wallace with the complement of the innovation model of Homer Barnet. Socio-cultural change is the result of any transformation of customs, values, and ways of thinks or behaviors in a society. The religious meaning of this change is the worldview change in a society as a form of religious conversion. Wallace defines revitalization movement as “a deliberate, organized, conscious effort by members of a society to construct a more satisfying culture.” In the process of revitalization there are three factors presented: (1) the perception of the culture as a system; (2) dissatisfaction with that system; and (3) an organized effort to change that system. The process of revitalization movement shares a common structure, consisting of the following five stages: (1) steady state; (2) period of increased individual stress; (3) period of cultural distortion; (4) period of revitalization(in this period there are six functions: formulation of a code, communication, organization, adaptation, cultural transformation, and routinization); and (5) new steady state. Anthony Wallace’s anthropological model of revitalization movement, in combination with Homer G. Barnet’s model of innovation can provide a useful framework for examining and understanding of the Great Revival Movement of Pyengyang 1907. He defines an innovation as “any thought, behavior, or thing that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms.” The emphasis in this model is on the reorganization of ideas rather than on quantitative variation. Culture change takes place not when there is just more or less of the same thing, but when idea, a behavior pattern or a material object is qualitatively different from existing forms. He has contributed to the understanding of culture change as he suggested the theory focusing on the innovator’s behavior pattern. As an outsider the role of the missionary is important, but the change agent is the indigenous leadership, the one who mainly influences on the decision on the reception of the socio-cultural change. The change by the outsider(or missionaries) may be destructive so that the cross-cultural witness should attempt to contextualize the gospel through a careful examination of the local culture, because they are the persons who use to bring sociocultural changes as well as individual change. In the end of the Chosen Dynasty, people had experienced a religious vacuum. The reasons were because Korean traditional religions, Buddhism and Confucianism, has lost their ability to provide people mental framework. This religious vacuum caused people to desire for fervently seeking a new religion. Also the Tonghak revolution and Chinese-Russian war and following the assassination of the queen Min drove people into fear and frustration. The year 1884 was one of the darkest eras in the Chosen history because there was no sign to resolve the current situation. Endemic disease spread all around the country accelerated the crisis and fear felt by the people. So people were trying to seek some solution to resolve the crisis. The stress level of people became increased, in fact, facing the crisis the colonial Japan began to occupy the country with power. In this circumstances there was a candle ignited for a revival by American Methodist missionary Hardie from Wonsan in 1903 August. In his confession we can find a transforming code for overcoming the national crisis and desperate situation, which was radical and super cultural. The revival movement started from Wonsan became spread to Kangwon province, Seoul, Gaesung, Pyugyang, and all around the country. Finally this movement exploded at Changdaehyun church in 1907 January. At that time, there were around 1,000 men for bible studying meeting and missionaries gathered for noon prayer meeting. Then how can the code as a spiritual awakening be interpreted and communicated by the Korean believers? The revival movement as a renovative code was interpreted and communicated as means of salvation, and it was diffused to beyond Pyungyang. The leaders of the movement included Korean church leaders such as Kil Sunju, Chun Kyeeun, and Chung Chuhsoo as well as foreign missionaries. They had lead revival meetings with a clear motivation to breakthrough the desperate situation in faith, which were combined with the prayer meetings of the missionaries. In fact, the Korean church leaders were involved in the revival movement with a strong desire to find a clue of overcoming the crisis, while the missionaries started the revivals with repentance and reflect of their mission works. But these two different motives were directly connected to the Great Revival, and they were finding a new code and goal culture. The Great Revival movement had played an important role to rapidly grow churches and to encourage evangelism among Korean churches through making young people to commit their lives for ministry, and to develop church structure. A turning point made by the Great Revival movement was the organization of the church structure, the unity of denominations, and missionary endeavor such as working together for medical and educational mission works. The Great Revival was really successful, and it had influenced on the development of the church structure, theology, and church growth. It can be evaluated that not only did it include repentance and awakening in a spiritual dimension, but it was closely related to socio-cultural transformation. So it is a crucial factor to examine the socio-cultural and political dimensions of the Great Revival movement. From a missiological perspective, socio-cultural change must include a transforming factor of the gospel. Any socio-cultural change in Christianity is not merely the change of individual's mind and behavior, but should be extended to social and cultural movements. During socio-cultural changes, the role of the church is to provide a valid biblical framework in order for people to change their worldview to biblical one and to suggest an alternative theological agenda for a relevant contextual theology to overcome the gospel reductionism and syncretism. To some extent, critical evaluation to the Great Revival movement might be something that it had done in an American form of Christian faith. In this reason, from the beginning the Korean Christianity had difficulties to indigenize and contextualize the gospel, difficulty that it was to transplant the gospel message into the Korean soil. In this respect it is suggested a problem that the movement has hardly contributed to the contextualize the gospel for the Korean church. Though there are both positive and negative aspects to the Great Revival movement, it must be the crucial event that the Korean church today reexamines and rediscovers as the event that has a huge contribution for the formation of Korean believers’ faith pattern in the critical time when the country lost her national right and identity. The challenge the Korean church are facing is that the church has to attempt to discover a new code and ideal culture that can inspire in believers’ mind and diagnose the today’s crisis through the Bible and the church history.

Animism was prevalent among people when Protestant missionaries first came to Korea. Since then, Protestant mission brought in great results among Koreans characterized by worshipping spiritual beings. Therefore, by examining the conversion pattern carefully in the materials written by missionaries as well as Korean Christians, one can easily find the significance of “power encounter”. Korean animists are very conscious of “power,” which is believed to be located in the spiritual beings, i.e. gods, ancestors and ghosts. Korean animists believe that the world is populated with lots of spiritual beings surrounding their environment. They not only have lots of traditions related to spiritual beings, but also serve many spirits in homes as well as in their villages. They are afraid of the spiritual beings and try to have good relationships with them. They also believe that anger or jealousy from the spiritual beings cause their everyday calamities. To overcome the problems, they either have to propitiate the spiritual beings with food or materials or coerce them through more powerful spiritual beings. In this context of spirit worship, the Gospel was very difficult to be accepted wholeheartedly by Korean animists. When they thought about accepting the Gospel, they had to deal with the retaliation from the spiritual beings they had formerly served. To accept Christ, they had to confront those spiritual beings. As soon as they accepted the Gospel, the title of the spiritual beings became negative such as “Satan” or “devil”. So they burnt fetishes like clothes, potteries, papers which were considered as the locations where the spiritual beings reside. Burning those fetishes terrorized lots of people who gathered around. Those who accepted the Gospel through such confrontation initially met persecutions from their family as well as their neighbors. But the early Korean Christians had persevered and ultimately overcame persecutions. Only when the family which had burnt those fetishes survived and ever thrived through the processes did family members confirm that God is more powerful than the spiritual beings. The story of the “power encounter” ran rapidly through relatives and neighbors. These kinds of illustrations of “power encounter” resulted in a paradigm shift among the people. They decided to accept the Gospel and became Christians. In short, “power encounter” engendered “people movement” toward Christ. Missiologist Alan R. Tippett’s thesis, the conversion of the animists are through the power encounter types of evangelism, is firmly proved by examining the Korean animists. As Tippett mentioned through his research among Melanesians and Polynesians that “power encounter” brought about “people movement” toward Christ, so did “power encounter” among Korean animists also result in “people movement” toward Christ. Although the animistic beliefs among Koreans nowadays are reduced in comparison to the period of first Protestant missions, many Koreans still resort to divinations and shamanistic rituals. Even many Buddhists seem to have animistic belief rather than the pure Buddhistic concept or perspective. So to approach the Buddhistic people with the Gospel, one has to be prepared with God’s power rather than with one’s knowledge about Buddhistic philosophy. Lessons we received from the Korean animists’ conversion experiences could be wisely applied when we evangelize the Buddhistic people. However, many cases of syncretism and backsliding to heretical movements are also found in Korean church history. When the process of “power encounter” is neglected or by-passed, chances of falling into such pitfalls are high. Without vivid confrontation with the deities which were served before, they cannot commit wholeheartedly to Christ. They can easily slide back to their traditional beliefs and become victims to heretical movements. To escape such negative influence from traditional belief systems, God’s servants working among animists have to examine carefully not to miss nor by-pass the process of “power encounter”. Also they have to consider carefully how to nurture believers with animistic backgrounds. Without appropriate nurturing, new believers with animistic backgrounds can easily backslide to their traditional beliefs. Upon the Word of God, their animistic perspectives and value systems have to be transformed to fit into the Biblical ones. Korean people were blessed when they accepted the Gospel and became God's people. They realized their mission sincerely and have tried to fulfill the great commission. They tried to be used by God especially for the worldwide evangelization. Even today there are many animists all over the world. For them, Koreans' experiences of turning from animists to God's people, can be utilized strategically. One who is thinking about evangelizing the animists over the world can use the “power encounter“ tactics and become a faithful servant of God. The conversion patterns of the Korean Christians can be used effectively in evangelizing the animists of the world when they get wisdom from early Korean Christians’ experiences.

The purpose of this study is to explore the German Pietism movement, the church renewal of England and the spiritual awakening movement of America’s churches from the view point of mission history. This study found out that each movement has close relationship to each other. The above mentioned variables also had a direct influential power to the social problems. These were the facts that made churches more vital and boosted activities of churches in history. This paper analyzed the contemporary situations of the Korean churches after 100th anniversary of Pyungyang revival movement in 1907. All the Church Renewal movements for both the Korean churches and the foreign churches has one thing in common: How to get out of the past mannerism and how to get rid of those practical ways which are being performed until these days. It is very important to look back to the situations between the “Past” and the “Present” from the Pyungyang revival movement in Korea because the situations of present korean churches are similar to those of the past churches. The Afghanistan hostage incident which happened last summer 2007 left so many questions to the Korean Churches: why they could not stand for oversea missions, how crucial it is for them and what's the real cause of this problem. Because of that hostage taking, the people nowadays think that Korean churches lost their social responsibility and they think there’s no place for them outside the church. With the essential findings of this study we can predict the ways of reviving the Korean church and Church Renewal. We just need to open our mind and think about Pyungyang revival movement.

The North Korean mission is inseparable from the South-North unification policy. In addition, the opinions of neighboring counties are also important. Such are the perimeters of the North Korean mission. This study attempts to examine North Korean mission, particularly the reconstruction of North Korean Church within the process of South North unification process. The reconstruction of the North Korean Church, as North Korean mission and unification movement, is a policy issue amidst the unification process. It is a policy that can create a basis within the North Korea and effectively manage the personnel, financial and mission resources of the South Korean Church. At the same time, the reconstruction of the North Korean Church joins the reunification process of the Korean peninsular with the North Korean mission purposes. The current situation is created by the ideological conflict between the conservative versus liberal elements within the Korean Church in regard to the North Korean mission and unification movement. In addition, there is a great disparity in the approach towards the reconstruction of the North Korean Church. The problems are three-fold: 1) Who is the protagonist of the North Korean mission? Is it the South Korean Church? or is it the North Korean Church? In case it it’s the latter, the term North Korean mission does not apply. 2) The phrase “North Korean mission” implies an imbedded view of the South North division. 3) Should the North Korean “Chosun Christian Association” be accepted as a partner in the North Korean mission? Or should it be viewed as a mission object? The best means of North Korean mission is to have the “Chosun Christian Association” take the leading role in the reconstruction of the North Korean Church. Since, however, it is the South Korean Church that is taking action to prepare for such an event, mutual cooperation between the two is essential. The reconstruction of the North Korean Church cannot be achieve by the South Korean Church alone. In addition, the reconstruction of North Korean Church is linked to the Korean war, a factor behind the division of the Korean Church into the liberal and conservative camp. The anti-communist stance of the South Korean regime was another factor that unified the right wing Christians. Attempts by the “Korean Christian Association” to reconstruct the North Korean Church within this approach involved, not only efforts to reconstruct the North Korean Church, but various aid programs. However, such aid programs were commonly perceived to be the work of mission organizations and not the conservative South Korean Church. Furthermore, the “Korean Christian Association,” which advocated the reconstruction of the North Korean Church, were mistakenly criticized as an organization that were only interested in the reconstruction of the Northern Church. Therefore, the reconstruction effort of the Northern Church must be newly reinterpreted. The role of the Church, from a mission history perspective, is to be a bridgehead of mission, a center of training for workers, and center of mission field. As such, though the reconstruction of the Northern Church is premature, efforts to prepare for such an event, financial preparation, training center for mission workers and confidence building between the South and North through information and assistance projects can be viewed within the context of the unification process. The North Korean mission through the reconstruction of the Northern Church within the context of the unification process can promote the unification capability of South and North. It is futuristic unification policy of the Southern Church. Precedents for the reconstruction of the Northern Church must be found from similar cases following the liberation from Japan and post-Korean war and examined strategically. The North Korean mission must conclude with the reconstruction of the North Korean Church.

분화용 아잘레아 ‘Mission Bell’ 두상관수 방법에 알맞은 배지를 구명하고자 6가지 배지원료를 혼합한 5 가지 배합비율(용적비)을 달리하여 두상관수로 재배한 결과 다음과 같았다. 초장, 초폭은 T1(펄라이트 3+ 질 석 3+버미큘라이트 3)로 혼합한 배지에서 가장 생장이 좋았다. 생체중, 건물중에서는 T1에서 가장 좋았으며 T3과 T4구에서 가장 낮았다. 뿌리 발달은 T2와 T5에서 가장 좋았으며 T/R 율은 T2와 T4에서 낮게 나타 났다. T3 배지는 모든 생장에서 낮아 분화용 아잘레아 의 배지로 부적당 하였다. 광합성량은 처리 간 유의차 가 인정되지 않았다. 배지의 이화학적 특성에서 정식 전의 배지에서 pH는 T1과 T2에서 5.13, 5.31로 산성 을 띠었으며, 낮았고 T3, T4, T5에서 다소 높게 나타 났다. 기타 이화학적 성질에서는 전체적으로 원예용토 로서 대체로 알맞은 수준이었다. 정식 후 배지의 물리 화학적인 변화가 가장 적었던 구는 T1과 T2배지였으 며, 식물체 분석에서도 전질소의 경우 T1, T2에서 가 장 높게 나타났다. 아잘레아 ‘Mission Bell’ 분화용 아잘레아의 두상살수관수 재배 시 피트모스+펄라이트 +버미큘라이트 또는 피트모스+버미큘라이트+훈탄을 동 일 비율로 혼합한 배지를 이용하는 것이 좋을 것으로 생각된다.

This study is to focus on the contribution and explain in Christian mission toward global society. Globalization can be defined as the set of processes that yields a single world. Globalization is the process by which societies become interdependent in aspects of their values, culture, economics, social, and political. It is easy to communicate interdependent relationships through multimedia in the electronic culture. Global society has entered the Online Age, the world of instant access. Accelerating change has reached a critical point where all parts of the globe are electronically linked. This global society is connected by the development of information technology. In the global society we see progress through the Internet. The Internet access connects us worldwide, which is software with a common shape of organizing and processing information. Concerns for challenge of missional issues in global society is an important task in this article of how best connect for Christian mission to the various issues in globalization. Some issues are Islam expansion and growth in the world, postmodernism, secularism, and religious pluralism. I have suggest some Korea church tasks toward Christian mission in the 21century. We need international mission partnership between Korea church and World church. We must be evangel frontier mission toward unreached people in the world. Finally we have flexible mission strategy and wholistic mission in various mission fields and contexts.

Christian Education and theological education in the secular age has to change their traditional framework. Theological Education which regards and addresses secularization as a negative phenomenon cannot properly serve the contemporary pluralistic society. The traditional understanding of both Christian Education and Theological Education is that they serve as the “light“ of world. The traditional position of theological education in the West is that education should serve as a light that brightens the dark world with the Christian spirit. Theology was considered the most superior discipline which lit the world from its ivory tower. There is the position of Christian and Theological Education as the “salt“ which purifies the secular things of the world as well as the secular aspects which have penetrated Christianity through the process of secularization. This is the position maintained by the school of fundamental Christian and Theological Education which is against secularization. The problem of this position is that, according to the dualistic world-view, the church is not willing to go into the world but attempts to purify the world and bring it into the church. Thus it does not complete the secularization of Jesus Christ who was incarnated to come and serve the world. As such, Christian Education and Theological Education has to play the role of “leaven“ in the world just as the Church has to be the leaven of the world. Education should be like leaven which spreads the Christian spirit and the Gospel by changing the world in the pluralistic fields of mission of the secular age. For this kind of education, Christian Education and Theological Education need to become concrete and practical to befit contemporary pluralism, and further to be changed into mission-oriented education. In this sense, I would like to propose the reform of Theological Education focusing on practical Biblical Theology, practical Church History, practical Systematic theology and missional Practical Theology.

The doctrine of Won-Buddhism(Wonbulgyo) is based on the Il-Won-Sang(One Circle) as well as the Fourfold Grace. The teaching of Fourfold Grace is the more distinctive and practical doctrine. Jung bin Park (1891-1943), the founder of Won-Buddhism, originated Won-Buddhism after "the great enlightenment" in 1916. He re-created it from Korean traditional religions. The doctrine of fourfold Grace emphasizes following things: the grace of heaven and earth, the grace of parents, the grace of neighbors, the grace of law. The doctrinal chart of Won-Buddhism shows the relationship between the truth of Il-Won-Sang and the fourfold grace as the whole to the part, and unites the faith and gratitude to be practiced whenever and everywhere. Two different grace theories from Sotaesan and Apostle Paul, are compared through out this article. First, Sotaesan understands god as pantheism but Apostle Paul, as creator. Second, salvation is gained from one’s good deeds according to Sotaesan but Apostle Paul asserts that salvation is gained only by the blood of Jesus Christ. Last, while Soetaesan emphasize religion of ethic, Apostle Paul emphasizes religion of life. I strongly suggest three mission strategies to believers in order to evangelize them. First, Christians have to witness the uniqueness of Jesus Christ to Won-Buddhism who believes in syncretism. Next, Christians have to change their Won-Buddhism world-view into Christian world view. Finally, we have to persuade them through love and patience.

We report the current status of Japanese lunar exploration SELENE (SELenological and ENgineering Explorer). As of the end of 2004, scientific instruments onboard the Main Orbiter are under final checkout before they are provided to the proto-flight-model (PFM) integration test. Also, we present the future perspectives of the lunar based instruments and facilities. 'In-situ Lunar Orientation Mea-surement (ILOM)' experiment measures the lunar rotation with high accuracy by tracking stars on the Moon with a small photo-zenith-tube type optical telescope. A basic idea of a radio telescope array of very low frequency range on the lunar far-side is also mentioned.

The Solar-B is the third Japanese spacecraft dedicated for solar physics to be launched in summer of 2006. The spacecraft carries a coordinated set of optical, EUV and X-ray instruments that will allow a systematic study of the interaction between the Sun's magnetic field and its high temperature, ionized atmosphere. The Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) consists of a 50cm aperture diffraction limited Gregorian telescope and a focal plane package, and provides quantitative measurements of full vector magnetic fields at the photosphere with spatial resolution of 0.2-0.3 arcsec in a condition free from terrestrial atmospheric seeing. The X-ray telescope (XRT) images the high temperature (0.5 to 10 MK) corona with improved spatial resolution of approximately 1 arcsec. The Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) aims to determine velocity fields and other plasma parameters in the corona and the transition region. The Solar-B telescopes, as a whole, will enable us to explore the origins of the outer solar atmosphere, the corona, and the coupling between the fine magnetic structure at the photosphere and the dynamic processes occurring in the corona. The mission instruments (SOT/EIS/XRT) are joint effort of Japan (JAXA/NAO), the United States (NASA), and the United Kingdom (PPARC). An overview of the spacecraft and its mission instruments are presented.

ASTRO-F is the first Japanese dedicated infrared astronomical satellite which will be launched in 2005FY and is now in the final stage of the development. ASTRO-F is a 70 cm aperture cryogenically cooled telescope and designed for the infrared survey with much higher sensitivity and angular resolution than IRAS. We present the current status of the mission, focal plane instruments, and the observation plan now being discussed.