K172 Mid Term
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lecture7-2.pptxB-1. Missionary Iconoclasm against “Demon Worship”
Received Tradition: Strict Prohibition of Demon Worship by RC & P in 19th C
Performed Ceremony: Burning Fetishes and Destroying Devil House
Preparation
A Crowd gathered
Gathering Fetishes
Burning Fetishes
Matching - Hymns - Prayer – Hymns
Short Preaching
Result: Home Worship
“Christian Home” and “Home Altar”
3. Applied Theory: the Germ Theory, Defeats Evil Spirits
B. The first Encounter between Protestantism and shamanism
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It is not psychological, biological, or pathological, but exactly biblical and spiritual phenomena.
Similar folk religious context between Shandong and Korea
3. Demon Possession and Christian Exorcism
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What has not been said by the scholars is about the influence of this book on the Korean missionaries
In this apologetic book, Nevius asks the question
“Is there such a thing as Demon-Possession in this latter part of the Nineteenth Century?”
He has investigated the phenomena and cases for 12 years. And then he sent out a circular to the missionaries and Chinese pastors about the phenomena
He criticizes both scientific materialism--the evolutionary, biological, pathological, psychological theories-- and the extreme spiritualism--spiritualists, theosophists and all apostles of Oriental or Occidental occultism.
He concludes with the biblical spiritualism.
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The people of North China believed in the possession of wo/men by evil spirits.
When, therefore, Christianity was introduced into China, and the narratives of demoniacal possession given in the NT were read, the correspondence that was at once recognized by the native Christians seemed complete.
In relation to this particular form of NT miracles, there has never been any difficulty on the part of Chinese Christians … And what is striking in the accounts given by Dr. Nevius, is their uniform confidence shown in the power of Jesus, or even of an appeal to His name to expel the spirits and set the victims free.
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Bible women as New Exorcists
- A Case of Mrs. Sim’s Exorcism Ceremony, 1906
1) Confrontational Dialogue with the Possessed at her own room
“Are you possessed of a demon?” repeated until answered.
The spirits beg to stay.
2) Praying for the woman who hissed, spat, and struck at them
3) Congregational Hymns repeated
until hatred on the woman’s part subsided into a low crying
4) Order the Spirits Come Out, yet they resist
5) Prayer and Hymns
6) Midnight Ordering the Spirits Go Away
“THOU FOUL SPIRIT, I ADJURE THEE IN THE NAME OF JESUS NAZARETH, COME OUT OF HER!”
7) Healing
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Results
1. Transformed Missionaries
Accepting the “Pre-Modern” Korean View of
Spirits, which was similar to that of the NT
--“a factor of Protestant success in Korea”
David K. Lambuth, “Korean Devils and Christian Missionaries,” Independent (Aug., 1907), 287-8.
B. Accepting Korean God, “Hananim”
as the Term for Christian “God” and
emphasizing its “original monotheism”
2. Emergence of Bible Women: New Spiritual Leadership
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Kaesung, 1909
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Conclusion
Biblicism + Chinese Christian practice + Korean shamanistic healing ceremony
Missionary Orientalism
Iconoclasm + Indigenization
Empowerment of Bible woman
Christ as the most powerful shaman (wonder worker)
Continuationism vs Cessationism
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