일제 말 한국성결교회와 일본의 식민통치 ―‘저항’과 ‘복종’의 관점에서

Abstract

This study shed light on the Korean Evangelical Holiness Church during Japan’s colonial rule of Korea from the perspectives of “resistance” and “obedience” used to understand the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Bethge. “Resistance” and “obedience” was according to the will of God. The Korean Evangelical Holiness Church showed more aspects than “obedience” whose sole purposes were ministry, revival and evangelical preaching like the early days of Japan’s colonial rule of Korea. They were actively resistant in most cases even though they were unfortunately passive at the moments when they should resist the issues against God's words and confession of faith. What tasks did their resistance and obedience leave for the Korean Evangelical Holiness Church here and now? The first task is to restore the passion for pure evangelical work that the Gospel Mission Hall sought after and also obedience, prayer, devotion, and service demonstrated by the members of the Evangelical Holiness Church during Japan's colonial rule of Korea. The second task is to inherit the spirit of “resistance” of Kim Bok-hee and the children at the Ganggyeong Church that had to give up a comfortable life and endure expulsion before the issues of confession of faith and belief. The Evangelical Holiness Church should inherit the spirit of nonviolent resistance like Kim Bok-hee and the children at the Ganggyeong Church and resist the era of mammonism and desire in the belief of holiness and purity even in attacks like Mammon's tsunami whose weapon is desire. And the third task is to perform obedience and resistance shown in the process of merger of the press and school and closure of churches at the end of Japan’s colonial rule of Korea in a way that is fit for the reality and timely. Today’s Christians need to have spiritual discernment about the types of obedience and resistance for what is happening to them and the phenomena taking place in the South Korean society based on the Fourfold Gospel of Regeneration, Sanctification, Divine Healing, and Second Coming. As it was closer to the end of Japan’s colonial rule of Korea, the Korean Evangelical Holiness Church resisted the Japanese demands to keep their faith and church and eventually made the “lilies of the thornbush” blossom. The Korean Church of the 21st century and especially the Korean Evangelical Holiness Church face a historical task of “new resistance” and “new obedience” fit for the will of God based on the timely harmony of resistance and obedience at the Korean Evangelical Holiness Church at the end of Japan's colonial rule of Korea under the Fourfold Gospel of Regeneration, Sanctification, Divine Healing, and Second Coming.