올해 2025년에 한국선교 역사 140주년을 기념하는 행사들이 많이 진행되었다. 하지만 올해를 140주년으로 기념하는 일에 대한 명확한 근거 없이 단순히 1885년 4월 5일 인천 제물포에 도착한 감리회 아펜젤러 선교사와 장로회 언더우드 선교사를 기점으로 기념행사를 진행하는 경우가 많았다. 본 논문은 한국개신교 역사 가운데 1909년에 가장 먼저 25주년을 기념했던 미국 북장로회를 시작으로, 1934년에 각각 50주년을 기념한 미국 북감리회와 미국 북장로회의 역사 기념의 과정과 의미 등을 살펴본다. 아울러 1984년부터 시작된 100주년 기념의 의미와 구체적인 내용을 되짚어 본다. 아울러 50주년 기념과 100주년 기념의 공통점과 차이점을 밝히고 있다. 이를 통해 올해 2025년에 이루어진 한국개신교 역사 기념의 의미를 교파별, 또는 교파 연합적 의미를 탐구할 뿐만 아니라 한국개신교 150주년이 되는 2034년에는 한국개신교 전체가 역사와 전통을 아름답게 부각하는 일을 제안하고 있다.

이 논문은 한국교회의 괄목할 성장에 기여한 역사적, 정치적, 인류학적 요소들을 연구한다. 연구자는 한국교회 성장을 용이하게 한 몇몇 핵심 요소들과 더불어 하나님의 완벽한 타이밍의 역사가 결정적이라고 주장한 다. 역사적으로, 이 논문은 가톨릭교회의 초기 순교와 북한 그리스도인들의 공헌들에 진 빚을 강조한다. 성경의 한국어 번역과 네비우스 방법의 영향 역시 역설한다. 정치적으로, 이 논문은 정치적 불확실성과 독립과 민주화 운동들에 교회의 참여가 어떻게 성장을 촉진했는가를 연구한다. 인류학적 으로, 이 논문은 어떻게 그리스도교가 한국인들이 느끼는 필요들, 특히 사회적 불평등들과 종교적 진공상태들을 충족시켰는지 초점을 맞춘다. 이 논문은 최근의 한국감리교회의 감소세를 강조하며 물질적인 복의 지나친 강조와 일상생활로부터 신앙의 분리 등을 지속적 교회 성장의 장애물들로 언급함으로써 결론을 맺는다. 연구자는 지속적인 한국교회의 성장을 위한 방향들로 영적인 복의 새로운 강조와 깊숙한 공동체 참여와 믿음과 삶의 전체적 통합(성속일여) 등을 제안한다.

본 연구는 한국 나사렛교회의 역사를 거시적으로 고찰하면서 지속 가능한 선교 생태계 조성에 기여할 수 있는 실천 과제를 분석적으로 제시하 는 데 그 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 먼저 웨슬리안 성결 운동의 배경 속에서 국제 나사렛교회의 태동과 확산이 요약적으로 소개된다. 이어 국제 나사렛 교회 선교 정책과의 연계 속에서 한국 나사렛교회의 설립과 발전이 통시적으 로 조망된다. 더 나아가 한국 나사렛교회의 해외 선교 실상 속에서 개선이 긴요한 핵심 현안이 주제별로 평가된다. 특히 선교사 생애주기에 따라 모집, 양성, 파송, 지원의 사중적 맥락 속에서 순차적으로 검토된다. 끝으로 한국 나사렛교회 정체성과 방향성의 관점 속에서 선교학적 제언의 중요성이 확인된다. 본고의 연구 결과, 선교자원 다각화, 선교훈련원 설립, 미전도종 족 중심, 통전적 멤버 케어 구축이 한국 나사렛교회가 추진해야 할 실천 과제로 도출되며 이를 통해 교단의 선교 활성화 방안도 정립된다.

본 논문은 한국교회와 기독교인들이 남북통일을 향한 선교역사에 대하여 논의하였다. 한국교회는 에큐메니컬(ecumenical) 입장과 복 음주의(evangelical)의 입장에서 북한선교와 통일을 다루었는데, 거 기에는 차이가 있다. 복음주의 입장에서의 선교는 북한의 복음화에 집중하고, 반면에 에큐메니컬 입장은 하나님의 선교라는 관점에서 통일 자체를 선교라고 본다. 이런 두 진영의 차이에도 남북 간의 통일에 대한 문제는 선교신학적 차이를 넘어서서 민족적인 문제이며, 한국교회 의 선교적인 책무이다. 본 논문은 통일에 대한 관점을 통전적인 시각으로 전개하였다. 선교적인 관점에서 남북통일 문제는 에큐메니컬 입장이나 복음주의 입장, 어느 한쪽의 입장에 치우치지 않고 총체적이고, 통전적인 관점에 서 다루고자 한다. 본 연구는 통일을 향한 선교신학적인 관점으로서 북한선교를 어떻게 바라보아야 할지를 다루었고, 통일에 대한 선교역사 적인 관점을 설명하였다. 또한 남북 간의 통일에 대한 인식의 차이를 이해하면서 통일에 대한 한국교회와 기독교인의 입장에서 접근과 제언 을 시도하면서 한국교회의 과제를 논의하였다. 현재 남한에서는 통일에 대한 논의가 정치적, 경제적, 사회적 측면에서 계속 논의되어왔다. 하지만 본 논문에서는 기독교 선교적 관점에서 북한선교와 통일을 다루었다. 남북통일은 하나님께서 이 시대에 한국교회와 기독교인들에게 부여하신 주님의 명령이며, 사명이며, 중요한 과제이다. 남북통일을 이루어 가는 길은 샬롬의 평화를 성취하는 것이다. 또한 기독교인의 시각에서 남북통일은 북한의 복음화와 하나님의 정의를 실천 하는 길이며, 하나님의 선교를 이루는 것이다.

The aim of this thesis is to outline the history of the mission of the Korean Church in Thailand and its characteristics, tasks and mission theological issues so that the thesis searches for the way of the mission of the Korean Church to contributing to the unity and empowerment of the Church of Thailand. To achieve this aim, the thesis deals with the social characteristics and value systems of Thai society and the history of the mission of Roman Catholics and of Protestants. Through suggesting the contour of the history of the mission of the Korean Church in Thailand, some characteristics of the mission of Korean Church are church plant, church-centered passion, project-centered and materialistic mission, and independent seminaries. Tasks of the mission of Korean Church in Thailand are acceptance of Thai Christians' critiques on Korean missionaries, Korean missionaries' understanding of Thai culture in depth, meagerness and lack of mission strategies, halt in mission, missionary kids' education, partnership in mission, acceptance of difference of Thai church culture, understanding of the missionary tasks from the socio-cultural and religious situation of Thai church, and theological issues. The main results of the research are as follows: first of all, there are two kinds of church in Thailand: one belongs to the Church of Christ in Thailand, the other to the Evangelical Fellowship of Thailand. Some Korean missionaries, however, established independent denominations and ran seminaries so that those denominations and seminaries obstructed the unity of Church in Thailand. These activities of Korean Church cannot be regarded as mission. Secondly, Korean missionaries to Thailand should not transplant the culture of the Korean Church to Thailand. Rather with Thai Church leaders, their missionary tasks are looking for the ways of how to communicate and share the Gospel with Buddhist Thais and identifying the appropriate ecclesiology in Buddhist society. Thirdly, the future of the mission of Korean Church to Thailand depends on whether Korean missionaries could expand the model of the partnership in mission done by the missionaries belonged to the Presbyterian Church of Korea to the relation between the Church of Thailand and Korean missionaries. Lastly, such an expansion of the model of the partnership in mission will be possible only when the ecumenical churches and the evangelical churches can reach a common conclusion through coming to an agreement on the theological issues such as human-centered theology, religious pluralism and mission methods and mission theology in the Buddhist country.

This paper is to study the missionary reflection of social service mission in Korea church after the 1945 liberation of Korea. When reflecting social service of Korea churches according to the historical features, it could be divided as before and after the 1945 liberation of Korea. The social service before the liberation could be summed up as ‘un-structural service period’ that had been conducted to Korean people in poverty, diseases and ignorance during the beginning of mission by the missionaries. The other could be summarized as ‘structural service period’ that is recognized the ideological conflict and the suffering from the division of Korea into north and south and the Korean war and ‘holistic service period’ that tried to avoid a crisis into social service mission as Korea churches in quantitative growth were experiencing stagnation. The mission before the l945 liberation was an education and a medical service as the approaching method in Korean society. But those services were one method for evangelism because they were based on conservatism theology of early missionaries. So, there was no missio-theological reflection for the extension of God’s Kingdom that Jesus Christ proclaimed in the world. Therefore early Korean churches are ‘un-structural service period’ that emphasizes only individual's spiritual salvation in the absence of society. During the Japanese colonial period social service of Korea church was ‘solidarity period’ that tried to find a clue of national problem solution from a rural community movement. Korean churches in the 1920s began to recognize social salvation and the world’s structural problems. The rural community movement also developed actively for about 10 years from the 1920s to the mid of 1930s, but it should be stopped due to the oppression in and out of church in the late 1930s. Even though there were many believers who died of dire persecution, many main religious associations in Korea found the way to live in sympathy with the visit of Japan’s shrine. After the 1945 liberation Koreans experienced both the joy of liberation from Japan and fratricidal war. In this period the duty of Korea churches was to save Clients in want and received financial support from the western churches because of economical poverty and impoverishment. And the April 19 pro-democracy movement in 1960 was happened due to the political corruption, but the democratization retreated because of the May 16 military coup in 1961. Industrialization and urbanization are promoted as focusing on the economic development, and UIM that helps the human rights abuses of workers origins. In this period Korean churches begin to open their eyes about the evil of social structure and illegality and corruption stemming from the huge gap forming between the rich and the poor, materialism and the negligence of humanity. So this is ‘structural service period,’ for Korean churches that are focusing on the individual’s spiritual salvation become to recognize the evil of social structure and injustice as mission work. Finally, since Korean churches after the 1970s are interested in the church’s growth and expansion, they are not into social service. The economic growth by the military regime caused trouble such as the gap between the rich and the poor, environmental disruption and materialism and formed urban slums. And also Korean churches that disregard these problems are contaminated by growth-oriented theology, but they surprisingly growed with the military regime. In this period the large scale gathering and revival are lively held, and churches closely cooperate in turning the concern about human rights and democratization into individual’s spirit salvation and blessing. As a result, Korean churches after the 1990s have been put aside in the society and stagnated constantly. Now Korean churches stand in between temptation of growth and responsibility of social service. The early Korean churches created the way to mission through social service building up many hospitals and schools as a method of evangelism. Therefore, Korean churches should revive a tradition of holistic mission with both evangelism and social responsibility.

This paper is to study historical characteristics of social service mission in Korea church before the 1945 liberation of Korea. The classification of an era for historical analysis about social welfare in Korea church is not only necessary, but also is dangerous. Because it could be depended on subjective classification of the researcher, simplified complicated historical processes, and there would be a possibility to classify it individually or selectively. Nevertheless, a missiotheological reflection about christianity society service in the Korea mission history will be meaningful to many people who study social service mission according to the classification of an era and important to Korea church which is in stagnation. In this context, the summingup to social service mission of Korea church before the 1945 liberation of Korea according to period features is necessary. There are two kinds of mission service characteristics in the protestant. One of these is Luther, Calvin and Knox as an ‘ecclesiastical’ type, and the other is sure salvation by individual experience of faith as a ‘nonecclesiastical’ type. Mission movement after Pietism mainly took the 'nonecclesiastical' type. The United States of America which preached the gospel to Korea also was offsprings of the ‘nonecclesiastical’ type. The faith of these people, as a type of pious Puritan, thought a concept of church is the same as an ark separated from the world. It shows at the constitutional law of the separation of religion and politics and the guideline of mission agency. Despite their spiritual salvation separated from the world, nonpolitical actions, and irrational and dualistic faith as what is called an ‘evangelist,’ these people began education and medical works as a starting point of mission at the beginning of Korea mission. These were based on the considerate help and charitable service by each missionary. This type of faith made emotional bond with Koreans in unhappiness as a method for propagating the gospel even though there was not an attempt grasping the underlying and structural problems which were causing miserable lives and political suppression to the pioneer missionaries. So, the local section was set up in ‘Christian Council’ in 1925 and the rural section was set up in 1930, but these were only recognized as ‘something for mission works.’ For example, the local section of ‘Christian Council’ in 1930 was limited only for the dormitory foundation, missionary sending, sewage factory demolition, temperance movement and combined execution of help works. This kind of early mission, which was an unstructural service has the same basis with pious ‘Mitleid’ to the lost souls. Pietism against protestant’s legitimism in the 17th century and illuminism in the 18th century was an important movement that awakened stagnated mission work newly, but focusing on an individual’s complacency and conversion it became the important motivation of mission and the important goal of mission only to save each person from corrupted world. Therefore, the mission of unstructural service has some limitations that restrict missionary works only as a province of converted spirit, given Missio Dei erecting the sovereignty of Jesus Christ and expending the kingdom of God in this world. It was from 1920 that Korea church started to recognize the basic cause of social problems systematically. And also this is originated from the development of international missiotheology. As the first World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910 predicted the world evangelization hopefully, it was based on mission for a human being’s spirit salvation. Consequently, it did not develop the christianity's influence beyond individual spirit salvation. But after Edinburgh conference the world’s history was changing by contraries because of World War. So the World Missionary Conference after 1910 was not held. In Jerusalem conference in 1928 the recognition about the social responsibility of gospel, secularism and other religions was on the rise strongly. Thus, Korea church in the 1920s was interested in social welfare mission according to the stream of world missionary and the social change of Korea(Chosun). Since this was the creed copy of churches of the United States of America and Japan, this social welfare mission had a problem not to include independency and a demand of the times. Many social service movements such as roll back of tuberculosis, medical work, settlement work and moderation movement, and service for women and children’s welfare, therefore, showed the limitation. During the Japanese colonial period Korea church tried to find a clue of national problem solution from a rural community movement because it was based on a type of national church against Japan. The rural community movement also developed actively for about 10 years from the 1920s to the mid of 1930s. However, it should be stopped due to the oppression in and out of church from 1938, for it should choose either religious martyrdom or a conversion to rural community movement. Korea church have experienced a special period in which it practiced society service jointly with Korean people who were in poverty, diseases, oppression and discrimination under the Japanese colonial rule. Nevertheless, Korea church separated from the society due to the limitation of its conservative theology that could not catch fundamental social problems structurally and the faith that salvation is restricted within the individual spirit. This is why Korea church is experiencing its stagnation since the 1990s.

This study focused on the revival movements in Korea, Revival movements had previously taken place in Wales, America, and India, The revival movements in Korea started with the 1903 Wonsan revival which was led by R. A. Hardie, who was a Methodist medical missionary working in Wonsan, Korea. Then the 1907 Pyungyang revival tool place as a historical movement in Korea. This revival movement was begun with missionaries, but it was mainly led by Pastor Sun Ju Kil who was an elder of the Jang Dae Hyun church. This study discovered following the strengths and weaknesses of Korean revivalism through an evaluation based on historical and missiological insights. A. Strengths: 1. Korean revivalism was based on the believers’ repentance as a result of the work of the Holy Spirit. 2. Korean revivalism was stimulated by missionaries, but it was led by Koreans. 3. Korean revivalism spiritually awakened believers, but it also enhanced evangelism and church growth. 4. Korean evangelism stressed prayer which led people to true repentance. 5. Korean revivalism always emphasized God’s word which led people to conversion. 6. Korean revivalism developed the Korean church into an indigenous church, therefore people felt it as their own. 7. Korean revivalism had a great impact upon other countries like China and Japan. 8. Korean revivalism formed a historical tradition in which some great evangelists were born and trained. B. Weaknesses 1. Korean revivalism tended to be otherworldly and eschatological after independence from Japanese colony. As a result, Korean church lost the balance between a spiritual awakening and political participation. 2. Korean revivalism demonstrated some “prosperity gospel” while reflecting Shamanistic faith. 3. Korean revivalism demonstrated some individual churchcenteredness which could cause conflict among churches. 4. Korean revivalism became so secularized that some evangelists fell to worldly temptations. 5. Korean revivalism allowed the Korean church to confuse the work of the Holy Spirit with the “Holy Spirit Movement.” Korean revivalism needs to be understood in terms of a great spiritual awakening movement, evangelism/missions, church growth, ecumenism, an indigenous church, and a holistic mission. To accomplish this, it needs to be approached through Korean church history and missiology. Some great Korean evangelists were discussed in this study. Sun Ju Kil, Ik Du Kim, Yong Do Lee, Nam Su Chung, Sung Bong Lee, Hwal Ran Mim, Hyun Gyun Shin, and Yong Gi Cho were included as great evangelists in the light of their call by God, their revival ministry, their message, and their contribution. The Korean church needs another great spiritual awakening movement to become a true church of Christ.

This is a study on the curriculum of church history of the Korean Presbyterian Seminary from 1901 to 1935. The Korean Presbyterian Seminary was established in 1901. The seminary was built for the spread of the gospel not for the research of theology. W. L. Swallen was one of the founders of the seminary and he wrote the first textbook of church history in the Korean language in 1913. The book was entitled Kyohoisaki (敎會史記) : the Book of Church History. The editorial system of the Kyohoisaki was a dictionary of history. The theological foundation of the book was evangelical. A new text of church history of Presbyterian Seminary was published in the 1930’s. The new text’s theological foundation was evangelical, the same as Swallen’s text. But the level of study of church history was developed further. The new text included the advanced objectivity of historical description, methodology of history and the system of editing. The Presbyterian seminary could offer the academical curriculum of the church history in the 1930’s.

It was in the year of 2010 that the news, which the thirteenth General Assembly of the World Council of Churches would be held in Pusan in 2013, was reported. Since then, the Korean Protestant church community has been extremely divided. While many Christians welcomed the news in jubilation, some opposed it in anger. Those church leaders and theologians in opposition have said that the WCC denies the orthodox doctrine of proselytism and promotes a religious pluralism through its program of dialogue among various religions The WCC’s theological orientation, they argue, “anti-Biblical, anti-Christian and anti-church.” The WCC’s theology and ecumenical movement ia “a Satanic challenge to the church. Therefore, they oppose the scheduled General Assembly of the WCC. However, their seemingly theological argument and accusation is, it seems, is political rather than theological. An anti-WCC movement in Korea, which began immediately after the Liberation, more specifically after the north-south division, was also begun not by theologians but by some politicians and ultra-conservative church leaders during the Korean War in Pusan. This article aims to explore this historical context in which the anti-WCC movement was begun. Who did initiate it, when and why? This article thus discusses such concepts as the Cold War, the emergence of a new world order, the division of Korea, the Korean War, McCarthy’s anti-communist hysteria, ‘red complex and so forth. All of these elements brought about a new doctrine that communism is anti-Christianity and Christianity is anti-communism. In this peculiar historical context, a strong militant anti-communist element is so strong in the Korean church community that some church leaders have stood militantly against the WCC.