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Tags: History, Lang:en
Summary
This book aims to explore the life of Yi Won-young, an
outstanding Confucian scholar from Andong, in South Korea.
Andong is known as the home of Neo-Confucianism, as in this
region Western Christianity took root amidst the impeccable and
ritualistic Confucian society without much conflict and
confrontation. This study deals with the most turbulent times
of 20th century Korean history and investigates the formation
of the Andong biblical Christianity. Was the confluence of
availability and accessibility of the Bible and Bible study and
the method of Confucian canon reading relevant for the
formation of Andong biblical Christianity? This is one of the
questions the author tries to answer in the book.
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Further, the author vividly portrays Yi’s struggle to
interact with the community and the occupying Japanese
authority, analyzes the development of his eschatological
interpretation and the issues of Shinto worship and its
consequences, church division and sterility of human minds
after trauma of deprivation. The book offers an overview of
Korean Neo-Confucianism and the early Presbyterian Church of
Korea during the Japanese occupation and post Korean War. For
Western readers new references were added by the
translator.