Whither Christian Mission Between and Beyond the Two Koreas? A Sacramental Reading of the Missional Narratives in Mark

For Christian mission, the Bible was and is an invaluable textbook. Particularly, the New Testament provides criteria and core themes for mission and encourages many Christian evangelists, Catholics and Protestants, to travel fearlessly across cultures (e.g. Matt. 28:18-19). Mission is not only “religious,” however, but also includes a “synthesis of self and other” through the making of connections and relations among the indigenous and the travelers. Religious synthesis of this sort has had significant bearing on the way early Christianity unfolded its social awareness, as it should in the contemporary Christian mission between and beyond the two Koreas.