英文摘要 |
"Starting from an alternative historical thread–the phrase“Resenting the Nation and Losing Resolve”(yuanguo shizhi怨國失志), this paper attempts to propose an understanding of the early history of the Korean Catholic Church, which is different from that of traditional church accounts. The reason why Catholic beliefs spontaneously took root during the Joseon dynasty is significantly connected to the Confucian social order of government and education, which placed Zhu Xi’s (朱熹1130-1200) thought at the heart of its institutions. At that time, these institutions already faced collapse and had become incapacitated. In studying the initial stages of the Korean Catholic Church, ignoring this important ideological backdrop and social context, while only relying on the perspectives of Church history or a“impact-response”model and separating such issues from comparisons of how states in East Asia (Korea, Japan, and China) responded to the arrival of Western powers is certainly limited. This paper also examines how Catholic beliefs introduced into Korea had already undergone aprocess of contextualization and interpretation in China, and in the missionary process, the idea known in China as the“inevitable other”(不可避の他者) continued to exist. The idea, passed through the historical memory of the late Ming and early Qing church, produced profound and long-lasting effects on the policy of evangelization in the early Korean Catholic Church and later persecutions in 1801." |