미국 남장로회 선교사 김기수(Keith R. Crim)의 한국선교: 대전스테이션 활동(1954 -1965)을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper investigates the missionary work of Keith R. Crim at the Daejeon Station of the Korea Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (the Southern Presbyterian Church) by examining primary sources such as the minutes of the Korea Mission, missionary letters, and other historical materials. It aims at reviewing his role in establishing the Daejeon Station and his educational work at the Taejon Presbyterian College while clarifying his mission theology. This paper historically reconsiders the significances of the missionary work of the Korea Mission of the Southern Presbyterian church in the 1950s and the 1960s while reviewing Crim’s distinctive theological positions – accepting historical criticism of the Bible, avoiding theological fundamentalism, and emphasizing ecumenical movements – within a theologically conservative tradition of the Southern Presbyterian mission. It seeks to interpret the significance and limitation of the Southern Presbyterian missionary works to the Korean church and society in the 1950s and the 1960s – at the time of a radical social change of Korea and the great schism in the Presbyterian church.<BR> Keith R. Crim emphasized the necessity of evangelical work comforting and caring for laborers suffered from the poor working conditions in the rapid industrial development of Korea. For the Korean Church, he highlighted a scholarly interpretation of the Bible while avoiding the fundamentalist literalism, and emphasized the biblical inspiration as well as staying away from theological liberalism. He prescribed ecumenicalism to treat the great schism of the Korean Presbyterian Church while maintaining love and unity in Christ.