『순교자』가 제기한 신학적인 질문과 대답

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to clarify a theological question by Kim Eun Guk and to give credit to his famous book, The Martyred. What I mean by giving credit is to read its content throughly and critically in order to elaborate the theological questions raised by Kim Eun Guk and to reply to his questions. I believe that this book has never been critically examined by scholars, although this book has succeeded in publication throughout the decades. When The Martyred appeared in the western world for the first time, people got the impression that the existentialism was the vital key to understanding its major characters, such as pastor Shin, pastor Park, even pastor Han who cried out the absence of the God in the desperation situation. The only way out of escaping from that situation is to become a humanist who does not believe in God like pastor Shin or to take his own life like pastor Han. However, either way is not the right solution to Korean christians who devote their lives to the church, so that they denounced it and did not pay attention to Kim Eun Guk's religious thoughts. Therefore, this book as well as his religious thoughts have not been properly understood. So, I write this article to get scholars a proper attention to his religious thoughts, understanding his dilemma and getting out of it. In order to do that, we must think of his question as the theological dilemma to which theology must respond. In other words, his question is nothing but the question about the oneness and unity of God who appears himself in the mode of Yahweh and at the same time God Incarnated in the mode of Jesus Christ. Concerning the structure, In the second part of the article I elaborate the theological questions into which The Martyred puts, and in the third part of that I try to give an answer which theology has dealt with those questions. I hope my reading and interpretation would get The Martyred a proper attention which it deserves.