손양원의 초기 목회활동과 신사참배 거부항쟁

Abstract

Rev. Son Yang-Won is one of the representative martyrs of the Korean Protestant Church. Some biographies and historical documents have been published, yet academic papers on his life and ministry are very few. Thus there are many unknown or wrongly-known facts about his life and works. This paper uses 『Son Yang-Won's Sermon Notes』and 『Son Yang-Won's Diaries』 as its primary sources, which have been little used by other studies so far. It covers his activities up to August 1945. The followings are the newly found facts through this study. 1. Son entered the Gyeongnam Bible Institute in April of 1926, and was graduated from the same on March 6, 1929. The name of the institution at the time of his graduation was not ‘Gyeongnam Bible School,' but ‘Gyeongnam Bible Institute.’2. Son opposed Shinto Shrine worship and resisted it thoroughly because he believed that it was idol worship, an outright violation of the Christian doctrine, and an act of insulting God. 3. It is likely that Son's eschatology was premillennialism, which was similar to that of Rev. Nakada Juji(中田重治) of the Holiness Church. 4. Most of Rev. Son's ministry was itinerating evangelism from 1926 to July 1938. He also worked as a preacher at revival meetings from the late 1920s. 5. As Son was ordained privately at the Aeyangwon Church by Rev. Unger in July 1939, he was ordained officially by the Gyeongnam Presbytery in February 1946.