Jang Gong was not a liberal theologian, but Neo-Orthodoxtheologian. He confessed that he has become an evangelist, since receiving Christ as a personal savior after experiencing the conversion. He intended to succeed the tradition of Calvin and Barth....
Jang Gong was not a liberal theologian, but Neo-Orthodoxtheologian. He confessed that he has become an evangelist, since receiving Christ as a personal savior after experiencing the conversion. He intended to succeed the tradition of Calvin and Barth. He insisted on the purpose-oriented inspiration of the Scripture. He was a scholar who showed the intellectual conscience against the church establishment. He was a scholarly leader who showed a social responsiblity and contribution of the church. His theology can be characterized as a evangelicalism of social participation. However, he missed the plenaryinspiration that the Scripture comes to us as a whole in the words, misunderstanding the organic inspiration as michanical one. He tended to reduce the historical Jesus into a social prophet. He had regrettably not carried out the theological works finished in the harsh confrontation with the military regime at that time. Korean church today would become more harmonious, if he could participate in to the social change, embracing the orthodoxy.