천도교의 ‘교정일치’론과 현실 참여

Abstract

Since the defeat of the Tonghak(東學) Peasant Uprising, known as Kabo Peasants' War of 1894, Chundogyo(天道敎) rapidly reorganized under Son Byeonghee(孫秉熙) and altered the direction of activities in cultural enlightenment. As parts of transformation, the name Tonghak had changed to Chundogyo and formulated a series of religious creeds called Innaecheon(人乃天). The ideal of Innaecheon-ism was to build a heaven on earth(地上天國). Heaven on earth proposed a better society for the majority of humble people who live in the contemporary period. The perceptions on the Innaecheonjui and heaven on earth provided an ideological condition in which authorizing the Chundogyo group the right to participate in political and societal conflicts. Without a doubt, the perception defined not only psychological edification of human kind in new order system, but also it emphasized the necessity of Sungsinssangjun(性身雙全)․Gyojungilchi(敎政一致) which contained broader range of transformations of social institutions in political and economical aspects. According to the value of Sungsinssangjun․Gyojungilchi, the Chundogyo group acquired in justification of participate in the 3.1 Movement and explained it as an excuse for some political reforms.