From Import to Export: The Yoido Full Gospel Church As Exemplar in South Korean Protestant Christianity

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2008
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Haverford College. Department of Religion
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This thesis examines the history and ministry of the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea in light of, and as representative of, the conservative and evangelical form of Korean Protestant Christianity as practiced by the majority of Korean Protestant Christians. The Yoido Full Gospel Church is the most noticeable and significant representative of Korean Pentecostalism, and, I argue, of Korean Protestant Christianity. Christianity in general, and Pentecostalism in particular, are represented in unique form in South Korea, through Reverend Yong-gi Cho and the Yoido Full Gospel Church, and vary from their American counterparts from which they trace their origins. For a new denomination globally, and for Christianity as a relatively new faith in Korea, the Yoido Full Gospel Church holds a unique position in South Korean society as a church through which one can understand South Korean Protestantism. I focus the work of this thesis by outlining two processes occurring in South Korean Protestant Christianity, through Cho and the Yoido Full Gospel Church, to show that Protestant Christianity has undergone the transformation from being a foreign imported faith to one that is uniquely Korean. By observing the processes of indigenization and contextualization that Protestant Christianity has undergone the reader will understand that the Yoido Full Gospel Church, whose membership only constitutes part of Korean Protestant Christianity, has influenced South Korean Protestant Christianity.
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