최태용의 교회론의 재평가 (Re-evaluation of the Choe Tae Yong’s Ecclesiology)

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초록

The purpose of this article is to re-evaluate the ecclesiology of Choe Tae Yong. Cheo Tae Yong, the founder of the Korea Evangelical Church, was active as a preacher, theologian and church reformer. During his study in Japan, he was influenced by Uchimura Kanzo, the leader of Japanese Non-Church Movement. They said that his theological attitude on church was changed after he returned to Korea, from the Non-Church Movement to the necessity of the institutional church. In this article I try to explain the ecclesiological shift of Choe as a consistent result of his theological core proposition, ‘the spirit and the truth’. His main concern lies not in the negation of the institutional church, but in the seeking of the true church in which the spirit can be known as the truth. At that time in Korea, Choe considered the church as inadequate Institution for this task and saw the root of the problem in the fundamentalism caused by the western missionaries. In this sense Choe’s anti-churchism differs from the Non-Church Movement of Uzimura. Finally Choe established the institutional church, Korea Evangelical Church. Choe’s assertion of the true church is meaningful today. His theology of ‘the Sprit and the Truth’ reminds us of the concept of the contextual theology, ‘the Gospel and the Context’. In that sense he can be counted as a pioneer of the contextual theology today. Moreover the reason why his ecclesiology should be re-evaulated is that the negative aspects of the korean churches at that time still remain today.

영어초록

The purpose of this article is to re-evaluate the ecclesiology of Choe Tae Yong. Cheo Tae Yong, the founder of the Korea Evangelical Church, was active as a preacher, theologian and church reformer. During his study in Japan, he was influenced by Uchimura Kanzo, the leader of Japanese Non-Church Movement. They said that his theological attitude on church was changed after he returned to Korea, from the Non-Church Movement to the necessity of the institutional church. In this article I try to explain the ecclesiological shift of Choe as a consistent result of his theological core proposition, ‘the spirit and the truth’. His main concern lies not in the negation of the institutional church, but in the seeking of the true church in which the spirit can be known as the truth. At that time in Korea, Choe considered the church as inadequate Institution for this task and saw the root of the problem in the fundamentalism caused by the western missionaries. In this sense Choe’s anti-churchism differs from the Non-Church Movement of Uzimura. Finally Choe established the institutional church, Korea Evangelical Church. Choe’s assertion of the true church is meaningful today. His theology of ‘the Sprit and the Truth’ reminds us of the concept of the contextual theology, ‘the Gospel and the Context’. In that sense he can be counted as a pioneer of the contextual theology today. Moreover the reason why his ecclesiology should be re-evaulated is that the negative aspects of the korean churches at that time still remain today.

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