종교신학적 관점에서 본 말콤 펜윅의 구원론과 초기 한국교회의 선교적 성과

Abstract

In today’s world, there is constant controversy concerning the soteriology of the world religions among the scholars of missions. They have continuously asked whether or not it is the best way to force us to accept only exclusivism in a postmodernism world. There are increasing scholars who have insisted not to demand exclusivism in a postmodernism world rather than in a modernism world. For example,some scholar declares that all religions are equal-that none can or should claim exclusivity. Therefore, the third Lausanne Movement opens in Cape Town, the Republic of South Africa in October this year. At that time, the main issue, of course, is uniqueness of Christ in a postmodernism world. The world religions seem to be assignments for Christianity to overcome to build up the Kingdom of God. The soteriology of the world religions in the perspective of a theology of religions can be divided as views of four types: (1) exclusivism; (2)inclusivism; (3) universalism; (4) pluralism. The writer wants to find wisdom from Malcolm C. Fenwick who had planted the seeds of the Gospel in Korea 120 years ago. Definitely,Fenwick was an exclusivist. To be frank with you, he was a realistic exlusivist. Fenwick did not define the world religions as ‘evil,’ butaccepted as ‘friend’ because he tried to find the point of contact between Christianity and other religions. He used the point of contact as the bridge of the Gospel, and produced the affluent fruits of the Word. In particular, when Fenwick was working as a missionary in Korea from 1889, both shamanism and Confucianism had already taken root deep in Korean society for a long time. However, he found out the point of contact between Christianity and non-Christianity religions, and then he obtained an abundant crop of the Gospel. First of all, this paper has a purpose to study the Biblical views and theological concept of Fenwick,and to find out how to understand and access shamanism and Confucianism that had already taken root in Korean society. In addition,this article aims at finding out to influence his soteriology on the early Korean churches while Fenwick was living in Korea for 46 years, and proposing the desired direction for the 21st century Korea missions.