본 연구는 선교적 교회론 태동에 있어서 에큐메니칼과 복음주의 선교신학 안에 나타난 교회와 선교에 대한 선교신학 논쟁에 관한 연구이다. 두 진영이 갖고 있는 신학적인 입장과 차이들은 교회와 선교에 대한 서로 다른 진술들을 내놓았을 뿐만 아니라 선교에서의 교회 위치와 삶의 자리를 각각 달리 해석하는 결과를 가져왔다. 선교에 대한 교회 역할에 있어 에큐메니칼 입장은 사회 참여와 변혁적 삶에 보다 치중하는 신학을 강조했다면, 복음주의 입장은 복음 전도와 영혼구원, 교회 개척에 보다 치중하는 신학을 강조했다. 그럼에도 불구하고 두 진영의 인식론적 변화들은 화해를 모색하는 방향 전환이 이루어졌다. 선교에 있어서 교회의 삶의 자리는 복음 전도와 사회 참여가 동시에 이루어지는 것임을 새롭게 인식했다. 무엇보다 두 진영의 지속적인 협력 모색은 통전적 선교를 추구하는 방향으로 나아갔다, 또한 상호간의 선교신학 보완을 위해 화해를 모색하게 되었다.

The 10th Assembly of WCC will take place in Korea in 2013. Conservative Evangelical churches in Korea take the negative ideas against the WCC. What is the theology of Ecumenical Movement? It is difficult to understand its theology. But it might be possible to catch the Ecumenical theological paradigm. Ecumenical movement produced the astonishing reports after a series of conferences or assemblies. Students who study the Ecumenical movement tend to be frustrated at its extraordinary documents. So I wonder whether any theological paradigm of the Ecumenical movement could be found. If so, we could grasp the total Ecumenical movement at a glace. According to W. A. Visser ‘t Hooft and Konrad Raiser, the Ecumenical movement in the first half of the twentieth century had a theological paradigm of ‘Christocentric universalism’, which had the four elements: Christocentrism, the concentration on the church, the universal perspective of world, and history-centered thought. As the head of church, Jesus Christ let the whole church participate in God’s salvation history to save the whole world. However, the Ecumenical movement in the second half of the twentieth century developed a new theological paradigm, which included the following four elements: Trinity and the kingdom of God, the deep study of the church, the radical study of the world (humanity) and the emphasis on the nature (creation). It could be said that God the Trinity as the Lord of the Kingdom of God let the whole church participate in the works of the Kingdom of God to save both the world (humanity) and the nature holistically. And the churches, as both sign and instrument of the kingdom of God, work to save the world (humanity) and the nature (creation) under the lordship of the Trinity. So we suggest its theological paradigm to be called as a ‘Trinity-centered universalism.’ As a conclusion, this study pointed up that the theological paradigm of the Ecumenical movement developed from Christocentric universalism to Trinity-centered one. Ecumenical movement took root in the ground in the Korean churches today. The Trinity-centered universalism as a Ecumenical theological paradigm could give the observers a coherent understanding and also provide every Ecumenical workers with a sense of solidarity.