Seeking the Lost Threefold Thoughts: Relationships with God, Earth and Human being

“Mission from the margin” was the title of the new mission’s document in the 10th. General Assembly of the World Council of Churches. Indeed Mission from the margin has not been recognized fully since Constantine’s new era of Christian history. Christianity was recognized by the Roman Empire, but it no longer possesses its essential vitality which was more possible when Christianity was a minority and persecuted religion. Christianity contributed to the“PaxRomana” and the “uniformity” of the Roman Empire. But the creative voices of minorities are systematically ignored. This article investigates the lost minority tradition of Christianity which has some commonality with Korean threefold thought and principles. The purpose of this article is to illustrate this Korean thought and lost Christian tradition regarding this threefold thought as well. Even though this kind of tradition didn’t receive proper attention throughout Christianity; it has succeeded in various ways. In the event of the Ascendant of resurrected Jesus the man with a white cloth encouraged people on the margin like in Galilee to raise their voices to proclaim the message of life.(Act 1: 8) The forgotten Christian tradition of the margin which has a similarity to genuine Korean threefold thought could be reinvestigated. In order to correct the current material prosperity centered tendency of Christianity it is necessary to restore this kind of holistic perception of a relationship with God, human being and nature. It could contribute to differentiated development against the one-dimensional market capitalistic approach and uniformity of unsustainable development in this land of dualistic ideological division and excessive militarization. Instead of a dualistic extreme conflict we need to have a dialectic vision for the co-existence of Sang-Saeng and “symbiotic life” in order to construct “Dream Making Zone”.