언더우드와 에비슨의 신앙관 비교 (Comparison of the Religious Identities of H. G. Underwood and O. R. Avison)

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· 발행기관 : 연세대학교 한국기독교문화연구소
· 수록지 정보 : 신학논단 / 84권 / 7 ~ 37페이지
· 저자명 : 문백란

초록

이 글은 언더우드와 에비슨의 저작물들을 통해 그들의 신앙관을 파악하는 데에 목적을 둔다. 언더우드는 삶의 모든 부분을 아우르는 통전적인 복음의 신앙관을 가지고 있었다. 그는 삶의 모든 부분을 하나님의 주권 아래 모으고 그것들을 그리스도 안에서 한데 엮으려 했으며, 이 일에 열심히 헌신하여 그 자신을 그리스도의 십자가의 죽음과 연합시키려 했다. 에비슨은 감리교와 장로교의 연합을 주장했고, 과학적이고 합리적이고 현대적이고 낙관적인 신앙을 가질 것을 주장했다. 그러나 현대주의와 과학의 발전을 받아들여 기존 신앙을 보수할 활로를 열어주려 한 데서 그다지 벗어나지 않았다. 또한 교회가 인간의 영ㆍ지ㆍ체를 모두 함께 개발시켜 사회적 영향력을 키워야 한다고 주장한 점에서 언더우드와 상통했다. 언더우드와 에비슨은 통전적인 복음과 전인적인 인간을 지향하는 신앙관을 좇아 개인과 교회와 사회와 국가와 국제관계에 대해 연합과 발전의 방향성을 제시했다.

영어초록

This paper concerns H. G. Underwood(1859-1916) and O. R. Avison(1860-1956) to prove the religious identity by analyzing their writings in terms of that they were very influential missionaries at the early Korean Church History.
Underwood, one of the first two clerical Protestant missionaries sent to Korea, was born to a pious family that attended a Congregational Church in England. Immediately after he emigrated to America at the age of twelve, he became a member of the Dutch Reformed Church in America until he became a missionary at the age of twenty-five. However, he transferred his membership to the Presbyterian Church in order to work in Korea. His writings indicate that his belief of the gospel was that of an all-round gospel. He tried to put all the parts of life under the sovereignty of God, to unite them in Jesus, and to unite himself as well with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ by his ardent commitment to the task.
Avison, the medical missionary who founded Severance Hospital in Seoul, immigrated from England to Canada at the age of six and acquired his progressive disposition and humane sensibility under the influence of his father. His faith, which grew strong in the Methodist Church made him dedicate his life to foreign mission, and in order to be sent to Korea he transferred to the Presbyterian Church. He advocated the union of Methodism and Presbyterianism, and the scientific, rational, modern, and optimistic faith. His endeavors, however, were merely to clear a runway with modernism and development of science to conserve the old faith.
Avison differed in his partial acceptance of evolution from Underwood who refused it, but Avison shared some similarities with Underwood in his insistence that churches should enhance their social influence by developing all three aspects of human beings together—mind, body, and spirit. Both men showed individuals, churches, societies, states, and international relationships a directivity of Union and development according to their religious identities with the idea of an all-encompassing gospel and a total self.

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