내부자 운동에 있어서“선지자 무함마드”에 관한 소고

Abstract

‘Insider Movement’ is one of the hot issues of contemporary Muslim mission strategy. The Cape Town Commitment defines “insider movements” as “groups of people [from other religions] who are now following Jesus as their God and Saviour. Discussion concerning Insider Movement still continues today within Lausanne Movement. Some cases of Insider Movement have been found where Islamic theology was reinterpreted in order to be accepted when there was confliction between Christian theology and Islamic theology. This study concerns particularly the theological reinterpretation of Muhammad. The characteristic of ‘Insider Movement’ in the Islamic bloc is that those who have decided to follow Jesus are taught to remain in Muslim community in an effort to share the gospel with more Muslims. In some communities, converts were spurred to continue attending mosques, based on the idea that mosques might be the best place to meet and interact with Muslims. In order to so remain in a mosque, however, converts had to make a confession of faith that “Allah is the only God, and Muhammad is a messenger of God” (hereafter, ‘shahada’). For this reason, by interpreting Muhammad as similar to the prophets of the Old Testament, some missionaries attempted to prove that the ‘shahada’ has no theological problem at all. But accepting Muhammad as a prophet means accepting the Quran and Muhammad’s sayings and his personal ways of life and his veracity. This in turn results in their acknowledging that the Quran is a revelation from God, and accordingly in their mutilating the core Christian doctrines about Jesus’ divinity, redemption, resurrection and second coming. The primary reason for reinterpreting Muhammad is considered to gain other converts within mosques through the converts remaining in mosques. However, allowing converts to remain in mosques would bring more loss than gain. It will confine them in the falsehood of Islamic teaching, resulting in ‘the mass production of Islamized Christians’ through the reinterpretation of Muhammad. Moreover, the evangelists preaching the truth of the Bible can be misunderstood as liars. Therefore it must be kept in mind that qualitative growth with the value of the truth preserved is more important in Islam mission than fast quantitative growth. Any mission strategy that mutilates the essence of the gospel and causes the oblivion of the truth has to be thoroughly reconsidered before too late.