전통적으로 기독교의 구원에 관한 견해는 전 인류를 두 진영으로, 즉 구원받은 자와 구원받지 못한 자로 나누어왔다. 하지만 20세기에 들어서 많은 사람들이 하나님의 사랑과 은혜, 그분의 주권으로 인해 모든 인류의 미래를 낙관하는 신념을 공유하기 시작했다. 이 주장을 지지하는 신학적 근거는 하나님의 무한한 사랑이나 구원의 전능성과 같은 하나님의 본성에 기초한다. 심지어 복음주의자들 사이에서도 타종교인과 비종교인들의 운명에 대한 명확한 신학적 합의가 없다. 하나님은 그분의 자유로운 의지와 은혜를 통하여 특정 종교전통 안에 있는 개인들을 구원하실 수 있을까? 여기서 기독교인으로서 반드시 인식해야 하는 가장 우선적인 것은, 타종교의 가르침이나 종교적 관행 들이 근본적으로 하나님이 예수 그리스도를 통하여 어떻게 인간을 구원하셨고, 그리고 어떻게 구원하시는지에 대한 기독교인의 인식과 분명히 다르다는 것이다. 따라서 본 연구는 그리스도인으로서 모든 인간의 궁극적인 구원에 대한 하나님의 능력과 자비에 대해서 어떤 시각을 가져야 하는지 다양한 신학적 견해들을 조사한 후, 연구자의 개인적인 신학적 결론을 제안하였다.

The present study is an investigation of young Korean Protestants’ views of other faiths and how they understand mission and evangelism based on those views. The empirical research shows that a considerable number of young Korean Christians have now embraced pluralistic viewpoint concerning other religions, along with the postmodern relativistic perspective about truth claims. This research concludes that both perspectives weaken the motive of traditional Christian evangelism and mission toward people of other faiths. The empirical research also indicates the urgency to recognize pluralistic and relativistic tendencies among young Korean Protestants in the history of the Korean Protestant Church. In other words, the emerging pluralistic and postmodern viewpoint, which is gaining popularity among young Koreans, is beginning to compete with the dominant traditional Korean Protestant exclusivistic theology of religions. Thus, we are beginning to see the competition between exclusivism and pluralism or relativism (religious and postmodern). An important missional issue regarding exclusivism and pluralism is that both can easily fail to engage people of other faiths. While the exclusivists close their mind and try not to listen to people of other faiths, the pluralists think it unnecessary to share the Christian faith. As a result they both have that the tendency to avoid engaging with the ‘other,’ that is, people of other faiths. In response, the researcher suggests “dialogical evangelism,” with the intention to escape the missional dangers post by both exclusivism and pluralism, and to encourage Christians to engage the ‘others’ in dialogue and love for evangelism. Having taken other faiths into consideration since the 1910 Edinburgh Conference of the World Missionary Conference, many mission thinkers have become involved in how to do missions toward people of other faiths. The dialogical approach to people of other faiths has proved to be a desirable way of doing missions. On the other hand, evangelicals have argued that its ultimate goal should be evangelism. Therefore, integrating the strengths of these two approaches, for the Korean Protestant Church and the new generation of Christians, the researcher suggests dialogical evangelism as the most viable approach to people of other faiths.