본 논문은 1890년부터 1900년 사이에 출판된 서회의 단행본(book, booklet, tract)의 목록을 새롭게 고증하고, 각 도서의 내용을 일별하면서 초기 출판 경향을 분석해 보고자 하였다. 기존에 밝혀진 19권의 도서 외에 본 논문을 통해 9권의 도서가 추가적으로 밝혀졌는데, 첫 10년간 발행된 도서들 28권 가운데 20권은 초보적인 기독교의 이해 수준의 교리서와 전도문서였으며, 그보다 한 걸음 나아가 신학 저서로 이해될 수 있는 도서는 4권, 소설이나 사전 등 교양서도 4권 정도 되었다. 또한 1890년부터 출간된 도서들 가운데 첫 14권은 모두 중국의 선교사들이 발행한 도서를 저본으로 삼고 있었으며, 1900년까지의 총 28권 가운데 2/3를 차지하는 17권이 중국어 도서를 저본으로 삼고 있음도 확인하였다. 이것은 초기 10년 동안 서회 출판의 주요 전략이 중국에서 교인들에게 수년간 인정받고 널리 읽힌 도서들을 한국어로 번역하여 출판하는 것으로서, 이로써 한국 선교사들은 시간을 절약할 수 있었다. 그리고 이러한 서적의 번역 출판을 통해 중국의 기독교 용어들이 한국으로 유입되었다.

The constitution of the Republic of Korea clearly states the separation of church and state. While pure religious action should be separated from politics, Koreans with religion have some duties and rights based on the fact that religious people also are members of the Korean nation and society. This article aims to describe an aspect of the relationship between politics and religions with a special attention to Christianity. First of all, Christianity of Catholic and Protestant played a great role in the building of the Republic of Korea. After the World War Ⅱ, other religions in Korea did not support liberal democracy. Also they had a very ambiguous attitude toward democracy. Some of them accepted even communism. In the ideological chaos, Christianity clearly counted as one of the important anticommunistic groups. At this point, Christianity should be considered as one of great contributors to the nation buildings of the South Korea. This close relationship of Christianity and anticommunism has been maintained from the World War Ⅱ to the present day. However, several presidents of Korea became dictators in the name of anticommunism so that many liberal Christians have protested against authoritarian government as well as anticommunism which became a hated word in Korean liberal society. Many struggles between governments and liberal Christians had been appeared in other areas such as industrial problems, rural society, as well as environment. Recently, many Buddhists has been strongly involved in such agendas of liberal Christianity. During transition from industrialization to democratization in South Korea, this nation has tried to find out a national identity and the Korean government have supported traditional religions such as Buddhism under the title of support of traditional and national culture. This support from government has been appeared in the area of culture, tourism and education. At this point, traditional and national religions of the South Korea have received a lot of financial aid from government.