K172 Mid Term
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lecture7-3.pptxC. Japanese Researchers
Journalists, 1905-1910
Okita Kinjo
Usuda Zanun
Torigoe Seiki
Journalists/Scholars, 1908-1945
Imamura Tomo
Professional Scholars, 1916-1945
Murayama Chijun
Akamatsu Chijo
Akiba Takashi
Similarities b/w Japanese and Koreans; The same ancestor 同祖同根
= Policy of total assimilation 同化
2. Differences b/w
Japanese and Koreans:
shamanism= inferior, superstitious,
premodern, female religion
= justification of colonization
Korean beliefs in spirits were at the root of Korean consciousness; it should not be ignored in changing Korea
Japanese government = a gardener who tries to graft a new branch = need to study the tree and the soil
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1. Yong-gi Cho’s Pentecostal Theology of the Holy Spirit, Yoido Full Gospel Church
Tent Church Taejodong, 1958
Seodaemun Church, 1961
Main Sanctuary, Yeouido, 1973
D. Modern Theology of the Holy Spirit, 1970-2000
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Rev. Cho Yong-Gi
1963 1,800
1964 2,400 20
1965 2,400 20
1966 5,000 150
1967 7,750
1968 8,000 150
1973 18,000
1976 31,000
1976 30,795
1977 75,361
1978 102,162
1980 150,000 10,000
1981 150,000
1982 337,054
1984 500,000
1985 510,000
1986 530,000
1987 600,000
1988 620,000
1990 650,000
1991 700,000
1995 720,000
1997 709,000 23,316 cell group
2000 837,569 (?)
2004 250,000 attending members
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Cho’s Holy Spirit
Biblicism + Spirit-orientation + Evangelism = Church Growth
Healing of minjung: Faith healing
Pentecostalism: Revivalism - Speaking Tongues
Message
Five-fold: Regeneration, baptism in Spirit, divine healing,
return of Christ + gospel of blessing
Three-beat Salvation: Spiritual + physical + material
Theory of H.S:
Pray to the HS
HS as his Senior partner
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2. Minjung Theology
The results of some theologians’ engagements in the sufferings
of the people, and political and social mission activities
in the military regimes of the 1970s and 1980s, and their self-reflections
“I met Jesus in the suffering people”
Suh Nam-dong, 1918-84
Ahn Pyŏng-mu, 1922-96
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Suh Nam-dong
Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135 – 1202)
Father – Son -- Spirit (The third Age of Spirit)
Beyond the limitations of historical Christology
Eschatology –post-Christian era – Collective Soul – millennial kingdom
Confluence – Re-actualization ← the work of Holy Spirit
Korean Minjung Mvnt (Tonghak) + Minjung tradition in Christianity
People’s Movement = Spirit working in history = continuous revelation
Pneumatological historical interpretation of history
Criteria: socio-political justice
Re-incarnation of the paradigmatic crucifixion-resurrection event
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3. Ryu Tong-sik
Paternal –Minjung – political
Maternal –Pentecostal – healing
Indigenization theology
Han 한+ mŏt 멋+ sarm 삶= Great beautiful life
religious + artistic + social dimension
P’yungnyu 風流 – original Korean spirituality
Conf. + Buddhism + Daoism = living all things together
Yi Yongdo + Kim Chaejun + Ham Sokhon
Religio-cosmic approach
HS has been working in Korean culture, art, music, literature, religion, society
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4. Chung Hyun-Kyung
7th WCC Assembly at Canberra, 1991
invoked spirits of the dead in suffering
Spirit of Jesus = a han-ridden spirit
Identified the Holy Spirit with Kwanin
Shamanism + Buddhism
8th WCC Assembly, Zimbabwe, 1998
Denied the finality and uniqueness of Jesus
Religious pluralism
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Contemporary Korean theology of the HS
Pentecostalism ------------ shamanism + Buddhism
Minjung Theology ---------- Tonghak
Indigenization Theology ---- Confucianism + Buddhism + Daoism
Religious pluralism ----------- shamanism + Buddhism
Traditionalists (Wesleyans, Calvinists) – Pentecostalized
Continuationism is popular in SK churches.
