World Christianity and the FoURFoLD GospEr
The lournal of the Global lnstitute for the Fourfold Gospel Theology
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CONTENTS
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
The Reunification of Korea and Peace of East Asia
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MISSION STATEMENT OF THE GLOBAL INSTITUTE FOR THE
FOURFOLD GOSPEL THEOLOGY
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Protestant Evangelical Theology of the Wesleyan Fourfold Gospel: For
the Full Salvation and Theology of the White Pine
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The Fourfold Gospel in Global Theological Perspective
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Albert B. Simpsont Fourfold Gospel: Both Product and critique of Late
Nineteenth- Century Evangelical Theology
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ARTICLES
Religion for Modernity: Martin wells Knapp and the Radical Holiness
Network of the American Progressive Era
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Native Initiative in the Transnational Holiness Movement: American
Bible Schools and the Oriental Missionary Society in Asia' 1900-1911
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Political Paradox of an Apolitical Church: Ecclesiological Development
of the Fourfold Gospel Theology in the Korean Evangelical Holiness
Church (KEHC) during the Japanese Colonial Regime (1910-1945)
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Kim Sang-jun, Sajung gyori [Doctrine of the Fourfold Gospel]
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BOOK REVIEW
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Presidentical Address :
The Reunification of Korea qnd Peqce in East Asia
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The peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula is a task of paramount
importance that the Korean people must accompiish in this generation.
From the perspective of our Christian faith, peaceful unification is tantamount to the implementation of Godt commandment for making peace.
In its one hundred and thirty years of the history of Protestantism in Korea, Christianity has played a signilicant role in both enlightenment and
civilization. Near the end of the Chosun Dynasty and the Korean Empire,
Christians resisted fapanese colonial oppression through the Independence Movement. After the liberation from |apan, Korean Christians
spearheaded the movement for democracy. At present Korean Christians
face a foremost historical task of achieving the peaceful reunification of
the nation.
As Korea celebrates the 70'h anniversary of the liberation of Korea,
Seoul Theological University puts its educational priority on building
"peacemakers for peaceful unificationl All students are required to take
the course "Peace and Unification." As a means to promote international
partnership in pursuit of this goal, Seoul Theological University has signed
1. Dr. Suk-sung Yu, President of Seoul Theological University, President of the Korean Association ofChristian Studies, and President ofthe Association for Presidents of
Korean Theological Universities delivered this keynote address at the 2015 International
Academic Conference convened by Seoul Theological University in conjunction with the
fena Center for Reconciiiation Studies of Friedrich-Schiller-Universität fena on 3 April
2015. The theme ofthis annual international conference in 2015 was the reunification of
the Korean peninsula and Peace ofEast Asia.
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with prestigious universities around the world including the university of Tübingen, Friedrich Schiller univerity ]ena, and
Heidelberg university in Germany, Doshisha university in |apan, and filin
the world, after the USA, in natior
unification is achieved, Korea will
Asia but to the peace of the world.
fesus said, "Blessed are the per
exchange agreements
Normal University in China, while we are currently in the process of finalizing an agreement with Yale university in the uSA. Seoul Theological
University seeks to collaborate with these universities in building a network that fosters peace around the world.
Unfortunately at the end of World War II in i945, four countries underwent political and geopolitical division. on May B, 1945, Germany was
divided into East and west. on August 15, 1945, the Korean peninsula
was divided into North and South. on october 1,1,949, china was divided
into mainland China and Taiwan, and on July 21, 1954, Vietnam was di-
of God" (Matt. 5:9). The original
(eipqvonoroi), which means "tho
achieve peace'l The meaning excer
points toward the potential of bec
thew 5:9 implies that Godt chiidrt
makers of peace. Peace is not simp
conflict, but an active pursuit. Tor
rean people, what we critically nee,
After World War II ended in 19
vided into North and South. There is also the case of Yemen, the two parts
of which were separated for 50 years. However, these divided nations have
one by one achieved unification.
on April
ibly divided the Korean peninsula
lel for their own respective intere
division, but the scholars locate t
annexation of Korea, which had a
divide. If Germany was divided du
also follow that japan herselflader
of national division. Conversely, Jal
able to rise economically due to th
nificant assisl.ance in becoming an
War which created the division of
is threatened by forces that includ
China's new Sinocentric expansio
30, 1975, vietnam became uni-
fied as a communist nation, and on May 22, 1990, Yemen reached peaceful unification through a negotiated settlement. Afterwards, South Yemen
struggled to secede from the unified administration, creating an armed
conflict between North and South. However, on |uly 9, L994, North Yemen
finally enforced a military reunification with South Yemen.
Germany finally succeeded in unification on October 3, 1990' Now
the remaining divided countries in the world are China and Taiwan, and
North and South Korea on the Korean peninsula. Currently the international community does not consider the division of China and Taiwan to
be an issue in need of resolution. Since Taiwan was expelled from the uN
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also continue to be troubling devel
China to be the sole legal government, and consider Taiwan to be a part
of the territory of China. Now only the Korean peninsula continues to remain as a divided nation.
Korea boasts of over one thousand years of history as a unified country; in contrast, Germany has experienced only seventy-four years of national unification before its division in 1945. The Korean people need to
be reunilied in order to achieve true prosperity and to escape the ongoing
confrontation that is wasting our nations whole capacity to experience
prosperity. Korea as a unified entity will unleash great economic synergy
that would propel its development. Goldman Sachs published a research
report saying that a unified Korean peninsula would be rated second in
tionalism and her renewed militari
history that denies fapanese aggresr
In particular, Prime Minister Ab
of |apanese denial concerning thr
in I971, the majority of nation
states recognize The People's Republic
forced to serve fapanese soldiers d
|apan caused great suffering to Eas
through its colonial rule and war
/apan massacred, plundered, and
is shown clearly in the massacre a
Nanking Massacre in China, fapa
thousand people. Germany, which
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the world, after the uSA, in national per capita income by the year 2050. If
unification is achieved, Korea will contribute not only to the peace of East
Asia but to the peace of the world.
]esus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they wiil be called sons
of God" (Matt. 5:9). The original Greek for peacemakers is eirEenopoioi
(eiprlvonoroi), which means "those who work for peace" or "those who
achieve peace'l The meaning exceeds the mere idea of "peacekeepers" and
points toward the potential of becoming "peacemakers." In essence, Matthew 5:9 implies that God's children should become apostles of peace and
makers of peace. Peace is not simply a state of existence, or the absence of
conflict, but an active pursuit. Today in order to make peace for the Korean people, what we critically need is peaceful reunification.
After world war II ended in 1945, the USA and the Soviet union forcibly divided the Korean peninsula into north and south at the 3grr, parallel for their own respective interests. There were several reasons for the
division, but the scholars locate the fundamental cause in the Japanese
annexation of Korea, which had aggravated a breach to issue the Korean
divide. If Germany was divided due to its number of war crimes, it should
also follow that Japan herself laden with war crimes, deserved the penalty
of national division. conversely, Japan which had lost the war in 1945 was
able to rise economically due to the Korean war, and it also received significant assistance in becoming an economic power through the vietnam
war which created the division of arrother nation. Now peace in East Asia
is threatened by forces that include North Korea's nuclear ambitions and
chinat new Sinocentric expansionism and distortion of history. There
also continue to be troubling developments in |apan, including ultra-Nationalism and her renewed militarism, and its cultivation of an erroneous
history that denies Japanese aggression.
In particular, Prime Minister Abe shinzo of Japan continues the record
of fapanese denial concerning the Korean "comfort women" who were
forced to serve Japanese soldiers during its dark campaign of aggression.
Japan caused great suffering to East Asia, starting with Korea and china,
through its colonial rule and war of aggression. During its colonial rule
fapan massacred, plundered, and committed numerous atrocities. This
is shown clearly in the massacre at cheam-ri church. During the 1937
Nanking Massacre in china, Japan slaughtered at least three hundred
thousand people. Germany, which massacred six million fews, sincerely
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Nazis.and made reparations' Japan
apologized for its wrongs under the
its aggressive actions of the past. Recentneeds to admit and apolägize for
during her visit to Japan, called
ly German prime ruint# Angela Me"rkel,
past and to resolve the issue of
for the Abe administration to confront the
comfort women.
of the end of World War II'
On May 8' 1985, at the 40th anniversary
GermanPresidentRichardvonWeizsäckersaidthatapersonwhoseeyes
to the present' Now China is distorting
are closed to the past is also blind
oithe Chinese Academy of Social
history through the Northeast Project
Goguryo into a purely Chinese history'
Sciences by turning the history of
of East Asia
in" p.oUt"-atic relationships between the three countries
historical memory' For the peace of
are related in part to a problem of
ail need to accept a just view of history
E,ast Asia, Korea, china, and Japan
enduring peace' The three countries of
and they need to pursue a just and
their own history of invasion
Korea, China, and ]apan need to overcome
to peaceful co-existence and coand war and move forward on the road
prosPeritY.
(I879-I9I0) assassinated Itö HiOn October 26,l909,An fung-geun
An fung-geun composed his unrobumi for the sake of peace in the East.
finishedessay..onPeaceinEastAsia,'inLüshunprison.The..EastAsianof
proposed provides a foresight
Meeting for Peace" that An |ung-geun
of the Korean peninsula is necpeace today in East Asia' The reunification
peaceful unification of the Korean
essary for peace in East Asia' Without
Asia' and without peace in East
peninsula'^there will be no peace in East
Now is the time for prayer and
Asia, there will be ,topt*t t" the world'
of the Korean peninsula. The urdevotion to seek the piaceful unification
t\ command of fesus Christ must
gent task of th" t<o,än peninsula and
the issue of evangelism and misbe accomplished. Reunification relates
sions,ReunificationmustbeachievedinordertosharetheGospelandto
of unification will come when the Kodo mission work. I pray that the day
unification and all eighty million
rean people will hear tle bell of peaceful
together in jubilation'
p"opi" oiNorth and South Korea will cry out
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