기독교대학의 수월성에 대한 사회윤리적 연구

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the relationship between the excellence of the Christian colleges and socio-political leadership in Korea. In the past the Christian colleges played a major role in the development of the Korean society and churches. This comes from the excellence of the Christian colleges. The excellence of the Christian colleges in Korea consisted of four elements: uniqueness of Christian educational ideology, excellence of scholarship, excellence of morality, and difference from secular culture. The Christian colleges early stage in their history maintained strongly their Christian educational idea. If it seemed to impossible to hold this idea against the Japanese colonial government, they decided to close the colleges, as shown in the case of Soongsil college in 1938. However, in these days, the Christian educational idea replaced with the unreflected educational idea like as globalization and information literacy. Secondly, The Christian colleges in the past showed their academic excellence in the introduction of the western modern academic discipline to the Korean society. However, the Christian colleges in the present has been lost their academic excellence except some distinguished colleges. Many of them are called as 'second-class' or 'third-class' colleges. Thirdly, the Christian colleges in the past demonstrated their moral excellence in the extra curricular activities in the field of rural and suburb of urban community. This made them to take the good reputation from the outside of campus. Lastly, the Christian colleges in the past showed their difference in the new Christian way of life from secular colleges. They were heralds of the Good News as well as bringer of the civilized way of life. However, in the present, it is very hard to find the cultural difference between Christian colleges and secular ones. This gloomy realities challenge the Christian colleges to reflect themselves to retake their leadership in the society through recovering the excellence of scholarship, morality and culture.