미국 남장로회 선교사 루터 맥커첸(Luther Oliver McCutchen)의 한국 선교

Abstract

This paper attempted to explore the mission activities of Luther O. McCutchen, an American Southern Presbyterian missionary. He came to Korea in 1902 and continued to work until 1940. He studied at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia Theological Seminary to become a minister-missionary, where he learned conservative theology of Southern Presbyterianism. Since arrival to Korea, his mission activities could be divided into three periods. During the first period(1902-1908), he made efforts to preaching the Gospels around the country. As a result he succeed in establishing many churches in rural area. During the second period(1909-1940), he continued to do his main work such as baptizing and teaching Bible in his assigned block, that is, northeastern region of North Chulla-do. Specially, in this period, he taught students at Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pyeungyang as well as in Men's Bible School in Chunju station. In 1940, owing to the break of war between America and Japan, all American missionaries in colonial Korea had to return to their country. During the third period(1941-1946), L. O. MacCutchen made a mission activities in Hawaii, serving as an associate minister of Korean Christian Church. There he also worked for Korean war prisoners caught by American army during the Pacific War. While in Hawaii, he regarded the Pacific War as a religious struggle between the heathenism and Christianity. According to his observation, Hawaiian society is rapidly secularized by theological liberalism. He argued that only the evangelical fundamentalism could block the stream of secularization threatening our Christian life. Here once again we could notice that his theological view ie deeply rooted in the theological conservatism of Southern Presbyterian Church.