일립 강태국의 죄관 연구 -초교파적 목회사역에 대한 반성-

Abstract

Illip Tae-Kook Kang was born in Jae-ju in 1904 and graduated from Presbyterian affiliated Gwang-ju Middle School and Pyong-yang High School, then left to study in Japan, from where he committed to give his life serving as a missionary to the evangelization of Korea. Towards the implementation of national evangelization, based on the kernel of wheat principle found in John 12:24, he established the Korean Bible University in 1952 to cultivate the education of the missionary. Because the Gospel, that is the good news of salvation, presupposes man as sinner, nothing can be more important than the understanding of sin. For Kang, sin originated from disobedience to the Creator God ensuing Satan’s temptation. The nature of sin, resulting from the abuse of man’s volition given amidst God’s permissive providence, is the unbelief of trusting God’s word, the arrogance in equating himself to God, the disobedience of going against God’s command, and the self-centered egotism. Kang’s understanding is that reparation of man’s sin is completely fixed on man’s relationship with God. As sin began with man’s ancestor and attributed to all men, the burden of original sin is carried by all men from birth and inevitably leads to death. For Kang, man’s death is not a naturally occurring phenomenon but is God’s penalty and curse for our disobedience. Therefore, the only way to free oneself of this penalty is in believing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and our Saviour. To Kang, who understood man’s sin completely in relation to a relationship with God, his belief that no denominational affiliation, no church ceremony, no religious doctrine could surpass or should compromise the teachings from the Bible in spreading the Gospel was what held his life’s work in the cultivation of the ultimate missionary.