세계교회협의회(WCC)의 제3세계 자유 반공주의 전략과 한국 민중신학의 태동, 1950년대~1970년대

Abstract

After the end of World War II, the post‐colonial political movement in the third world became active, and as the new countries emerged, the WCC began to use the third world liberal anti‐communism strategy. It was expressed as ‘indigenization’ emphasizing the third world’s ethnic culture and ‘contextualization’ emphasizing social and economic problems. WCC emphasized ‘indigenization’ first and put a lot of effort to make Protestantism indigenized in the third world. In the early 1960s, Korean theologians were devoted to the study of the indigenization of Protestantism, under the influence and support of the world church.BR Since the mid‐1960s, the WCC has begun to emphasize ‘contextualization’ in ‘indigenization’. At the 4th WCC meeting in Uppsala, Sweden in 1968, ‘contextualization’ was officially adopted. Korean Protestants accepted ‘contextualization’ as a ‘Seunggong(勝共) nationalism’. They believed that political and economic development should be achieved in order to win the confrontation with North Korea. The reason why Korean Christians accepted ‘contextualization’ as a ‘Seunggong nationalism’ was because of the crisis consciousness caused by the military confrontation between South and North Korea and the social poverty issue in South Korea. As a result, a Minjung theology was born that copes with social and economic problems, including Korean national culture.