Moving from “Foreign Mission” to “World Mission” in South Korea and the United States

This article traces the evolving attitudes and relationships of Korean Protestants and American missionaries after 1945 through an investigation of the rise of one Korean Presbyterian pastor, Kyung-Chik Han, as a renowned religious leader at home and abroad during the escalation of the Cold War in t...

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Published in:Mission studies
Main Author: Yoo, William (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Mission studies
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Han, Kyŏng-jik 1902-2000 / Graham, Billy 1918-2018 / South Korea / Presbyterians / Mission (international law / History 1945-2000
RelBib Classification:KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBM Asia
KDD Protestant Church
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Kyung-Chik Han Billy Graham Samuel Hugh Moffett world Christianity foreign mission reverse mission American Presbyterianism Korean Presbyterianism
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Summary:This article traces the evolving attitudes and relationships of Korean Protestants and American missionaries after 1945 through an investigation of the rise of one Korean Presbyterian pastor, Kyung-Chik Han, as a renowned religious leader at home and abroad during the escalation of the Cold War in the 1950s, and the uneasy transitions within the American Presbyterian missions in Korea. The analysis of Han’s sermons and addresses in Korea and the West, popular American Protestant magazines, and American missionary documents illumines the creation of new transnational Christian partnerships, the presence of ongoing cross-cultural tensions, and the emergence of new challenges between Korean Protestants and American missionaries as the positions of authority started to shift. This study concludes with broader observations connecting the history of the relationships between Han and American Protestants to some of the problems with contemporary interpretations of the changing dynamics and mission flows in world Christianity.
ISSN:1573-3831
Contains:In: Mission studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341465