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The Christian Social Ethics Thought of Yun Chi-Ho in the Transition Period to Modern Times

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2011, (22), pp.75-101
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

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Yun Chi-Ho who was born in the transition period to modern times at the end of nineteenth century had grown as a Confucius intellectual through traditional education of Confucianism. Within the social trend of modernization, he experienced modern civilization by studying in Japan. He had to go on an exile to Shanghai, China along with the frustration of 1884 coup. At that place, he had converted to Christianity on the level of personal ethics. Studying in the United States afterwards, he started accepting the social ethics of Christianity. He established the strategy of reformation movement on the level of Christian social ethics. Afterwards, he had spread out social practices through reformation of system and independence association movement. He had also spread patriotic enlightenment movement to awaken Korean people and raise the skills of national community. In the period of japanese occupation, he tried to reconstruct the collapsed national community through Christian youth movement, women’s movement, press movement and education movement, etc on the level of Christian social ethics. Yun Chi-Ho attempted to break with Confucianism related view of the world in the transition period to modern age and insisted on Christian faith as a new substitute. He emphasized on the ethical severity on the level of paradigm of life. He systematized the ethical paradigm on this basis. Also, his social ethics originated from the practicality and practice of Christianity. In this aspect, his Christian faith had brought the result of concentrating on this life than afterlife. He recognized Christian ethics as realistic practical ethics. He considered this as providing the social ethics of common good having awareness of mission in the social improvement and reformation. And he realistically accepted the theory of social evolution dealing with the law of the jungle. But he did not accept the ‘God of Christianity’ as ‘God of destiny’. He had overcome this through the stewardship in Christianity. This had become a driving force of having the hope to develop our race without getting frustrated within a hopeless political reality under the oppression of Japan’s imperialism.

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