이광순의 선교신학

Abstract

Kwang Soon Lee is a retired professor of mission in Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary. And she was also Kyung Gik Han's professor of theology of mission. She wrote an interesting essay named 'our theology of mission' which is considered as a manifesto of the Presbyterian denomination. In that essay, she manifested three elements as the basic principle for establishing our theology of mission. The first element is that Missio Dei is a basic concept of our theology of mission. As a Missio Dei, the subject of mission is the Triune God, not church. The second element is that the Bible is the foundation of the mission in terms of the method and the content. The last element is that the church is the means of the mission, so that the regeneration of church is the key to Missio Dei. That is to say God's primary goal is to regenerate the church's passion for world mission. The purpose of this article is to clarify what 'our theology of mission' is about. The first that we need to clarify is the meaning of Missio Dei. Missio Dei is the general term of mission. The evangelicalism names its theology of mission as Missio Dei. The ecumenicalism names its theology of mission as Missio Dei. However,the question is what we mean when we call our theology of mission as Missio Dei. Do we mean it in terms of the evangelicalism or the ecumenicalism? And what if we mean it a bit different from both;then how do we name it? So this article clarifies the meaning of Missio Dei. Next, the biblical foundation of our theology of mission needs to be clarified. And third which we are about to make clear is that the regeneration of church is the key to understanding Missio Dei in terms of our theology of mission. Kwang Soon Lee puts Jesus as the biblical foundation of our theology of mission. She found that the work of Jesus reported in Matthew 4:23 is the key to unlock the holistic character of our theology of mission. Based upon Matthew 4:23, Kwang Soon Lee describes Jesus prefers the individual over the social justice. So does our theology of mission. In that sense our theology of mission is the evangelicalism. According to Kwang Soon Lee, the mission is to establish the sovereignty of Jesus over the world as the ecumenicalism emphasizes. So does our theology of mission. In that sense our theology of mission is the ecumenicalism. Therefore in this article, I declare that our theology of mission is Missio Dei in terms of the evangelical ecumenism.