1920-30년대 길선주의 종말론적 부흥운동 - 종말론적 내연과 신사참배 저항의 외연을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Reverend Gil, Seon-Ju gave the new hope of apocalyptic end to the Korean Christians through the eschatological revival movements in the 1920-30s. However, Reverend Gil's revival movements have been evaluated that did not fulfill the responsibility towards society and the nation as a form of escapism faith. Such perception was often presented as historical evidence to reject the participation of the Christian community. Unlike this non-historical evaluation, Reverend Gil's revival movements showed a strong resistance against the Japanese Emperor system in the end of the 1930s. The revival movements were inspired national consciousness appeared phenomenally as strong national movements towards anti-Japanese Emperor system, especially resistance to the Shinto shrine service. In chapter two, I showed the cultural domination by Japan and the situation of Korean churches in the 1920-30s. In chapter three, I dealt with the characteristic and theology of Reverend Gil's eschatological revival movements. Among them, I paid attention to this world which was based on the apocalyptic literature in his eschatology and the doctrine of the pre-millennium kingdoms. And in the chapter four and five, I have proved that through Reverend Gil's revival movements, the eschatological internal combustion of national consciousness was phenomenal as a powerful extension of a strong resistance to the Shinto shrine service at the end of the 1930s. In this article, I have shown that the eschatological faith in a religious dimension was phenomenologically a more powerful means of the anti-Japanese Emperor, and the resistance forces in Japanese Emperor until the end. Therefore, this article opened up new horizons of interpreting the eschatological revival movements of Reverend Gil as the national movements in the 1920-30s.