2022, Vol., No.54

The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.58

pISSN : 1229-8387 / eISSN : 2713-749X
https://journal.kci.go.kr/csethics

In the history of Korean national movements, Pastor Son Jeong-do is the most important national activist representing Korean Christianity. His life was a series of struggles for the national independence movement as well as his pastoral ministry. He turned from the individual level of Christian faith into the level of pastoral ministry, and developed it to the level of nation. Therefore, Pastor Son Jeong-do can be called an true Christian nationalist. Based on the research achievements so far, this paper will examine the faith and theology that appeared in the early pastoral ministry and national movement of Pastor Son. And also, it will trace the process of how his theology was formed. For this purpose, this paper will examines the conversion of Pastor Son and his days at Soongsil Middle School and deal with missionary work in China and domestic pastoral work before the March 1st Movement.

This study aims to analyze the view of the missionaries’ Christian ethics in "Sermons by One Hundred Pastors & Teachers Vol. 1"(1921) in the early era of Japanese Imperialism’s ‘Rule of Culture.’ The author concentrates on the central discourses on the missionaries’ ethics in this book as follows. Firstly, the author treats with the views of Christian ethics around the themes of efforts for unified integration of this world and the next, vertical and horizontal ethics as love, and moderation and abstinence in Henry G. Appenzeller’s “The Purpose of Life.” Secondly, the author points out the views of ‘coram Deo’ around the themes of close inspection of God, pious spirit and attitude, practice of good deeds in Robert Knox’s “True Piety.” Thirdly, the author centers the views of ethics around the themes of diagnosis of human sin, supernatural morality as imago Dei in James S. Gale’s “The Bible.”

The Christian community, which began to reflect on the shock of the April 19 Revolution in 1960, was generally recognized as divided into progress and conservatives through opposition to the Korea-Japan agreement, condemnation of the June 8 election, and opposition to the constitutional amendment in 1961. Therefore, there is not much research and interest in the Christian social movement from 1945 to the end of the 1960s after liberation. Although it was forgotten due to ideological issues during the division of the two Koreas and the Korean War, the Christian social movement to fundamentally solve rural problems, which was one of the important tasks of our people at the time, emphasized the practice of Christian values, unlike the Christian democratization movement in the 1970s. The important task of Korean Christianity in today's society, which has many challenges to solve, is to present new Christian values and ethics beyond the division and confrontation prevalent in our society through historical research and ethical evaluation of the Christian social movement of this period.