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The Contents of Mission in Ecumenical Mission
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에큐메니칼 선교의 '선교 내용' 이해

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서울신학대학교 기독교신학연구소 신학과 선교 신학과 선교 제43호
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2013.1
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157 - 186 (30page)

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In a general sense, mission means "widening a religion broadly." In other words, mission is an activity of widening a religion through propagation of truth. In carrying out this mission, in the past, Christianity was able to express the content that should be transmitted in a concise way. It was no other than the Gospel, the way of salvation. The Edinburgh Assembly, a first meeting of ecumenical movement, also made a purpose of its goal as ‘evangelization of the world in this generation.’ It means that the assembly also considered the contents of mission as ‘the gospel,’ though it had a deep interest in the way of cooperation in transmitting the gospel to the world. However, after the second world war the ecumenical mission started to have a different view of its contents. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the differences and to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the ecumenical view. In carrying out this paper, the first thing that I was interested was the major background of this difference. What were the major reasons of this difference? I found out the motivation as the widened interest in the world due to Missio Dei, a new and broad understanding about human, and an understanding of creational theology. Based on these backgrounds the contents of ecumenical mission show traits of the concept of wholistic salvation, reconciliation and unity of the whole universe, and emphasizing wholistic life. This kind of understanding has various strengths. It helps us to view the meaning of salvation in a more comprehensive way. It also makes us to apply the meaning of salvation not just to humanity but also to whole creation. In addition to these, it widens the meaning of life from just a spiritual dimension to a broader dimension which includes physical and universal aspects. However, these kinds of strengths contain various weaknesses as well. The widened view of salvation can weaken the necessity of repentance which is a core of content of mission. Also the reconciliation of the whole universe can weaken the necessity of evangelism which is a core duty of mission. Lastly, the widened understanding of life has a possibility of weakening the enthusiasm of saving souls. It seems ecumenical mission needs to compensate these weaknesses to make it more appropriate and powerful in carrying out its mission.

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