개화기소설「성산명경(聖山明鏡)」에 나타난 기독교변증적 대화와 문학적 수사(修辭)

Abstract

Byung-Heon Choi so called Tak-Sa, as an Methodist clergy, has been famed as first dialectic theologian who had demonstrated dialectically Christianity against native religions by writing the novel Sungsanmyungkyung. This novel that had published in early 1910s has been noticed as a work with fictional characters of the Dreaming Excursion departed from the discussional novels. The purpose of this study is to examine an attitude of dialectic demonstrating Christianity and a pattern of literary rhetorics notifying that attitude. The dialectic demonstrating religion had been to be a polemic dialogue between Korean native religions and Christianity. Not only his consistent attitude of the subject as a religious missionary but also his detailed understanding of traditional religions had been virtues that had not compelled lopsidedly or exclusively his religion from others. For persuading others of new religion with a fictional form mobilizing a several literary apparatus, he had implicated the period place of each religion in his time or the progressive spirit and superiority of Christianity by describing contrastively each of the external shapes of characters And also he had helped audiences to understand comparative explanation strange doctrines of Christianity with them of traditional religions by presenting allegoric words. By them he had helped their native senses to overcome cultural walls and accept words that had expressed western ideas. The Sungsanmyungkyung had been to be appreciated a work that had obtained remarkable fruits in Korean history of literature and theology in terms of its attempt to dialectic demonstrate a religion with the literature. It is not had to be overlooked that it had a significance of the pain as a result of the literary effort to accomplish effectively ‘the embodiment of ideas’ strange to Koreans and ‘the dialogue among heterogeneous religions’