‘이 세대 안에 세계 복음화를!’의 현실

Reality of ‘The Evangelization of the World in This Generation -' Missiological Study of Revivals of Early Korean Church Shown in Writings of John Raleigh Mott and Documents of The 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh

In this thesis the author would say that evaluating westernised World Protestant views by documents and writing of The 1910 World Edinburgh Conference and John R. Mott to Korean churches, the assessments and expectation of the Korea Protestant mission and churches in a discourse of ‘The evangelisation of the world in this generation’ focused upon only external revivals and institutional growth of ‘new churches’ or ‘younger churches’ in the non-Christian world. That is to say, missionaries and church leaders having western-centred perspective on the discourse neglected development and maturity of long-time period. Escaping the real problem in the mission fields, a hyperreal vision, ‘establishing Christendom in the world’ is the very the most interesting issue to them. This is shown that their interpretation of World mission isinstitutional and western-centred. For researching this issue, histographical method is entirely utilised. Nevertheless, materials are investigated by views of Cross-cultural studies and missiology. There are not only documents of The 1910 World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland and for relating to the conference, some articles of several journals like International Bulletin of Missionary Researc), Svensk missionstidskrift, but also published writings of John R. Mott like The Decisive Hour of Christian Mission, Five decades and a forward view, The Evangelization of the World in This Generation) and references of John R. Mott and records of the Conference in Edinburgh reported in 『Korea Mission Field 』. Using these materials the author studies that looking upon contents of early Protestant churches in Korea evaluated by John R. Mott and reports of Korean churches in the Conference from a scholarly perspective of Korean Christian, she evaluated the assessment of Korean churches in the period by the view of western-centred Protestant mission. Through this, she hope to suggest an anticipating assertion, not evangelising for Christianisation but practical evangelisation for essential Christendom being possibly in the world.