The aims of this thesis at a critical time of the campus ministry in Korea is to evaluate the students' responses to the campus ministry of the universities in Korea, particularly in Yonsei University and to search for a new direction of the campus mi...
The aims of this thesis at a critical time of the campus ministry in Korea is to evaluate the students' responses to the campus ministry of the universities in Korea, particularly in Yonsei University and to search for a new direction of the campus ministry in the light of "Structural Ministry" in which the University community as a whole should participate.
A survey of the historical trends as well as the present situations of the campus ministry in the United States, Japan and Korea was inevitable.
The method applied to this research is a statistical and descriptive one, in which all the questionnaires collected were critically classified and analyzed. All the questions raised in the questionnaires were divided into three parts, namely, Chapel, Religious Courses and Structural Ministry and/or Campus Life. Each question had several alternatives. The analysis of all these collected materials with the options for each question were computed in terms of percentage. Six out of nineteen questions which were necessary for this study were examined in terms of Chi Square X2 in order to demonstrate statistical significance.
The result of this study shows four different distinguishable conclusions: a) Chapel service must be carried out as a program for religious education by way of inducing Christian ideas, a Christian value system or a Christian style of life rather than traditional worship-centered as in the churches. This study indicates a demand for traditional forms of preaching that keep pace with experimental forms of worship. b) The hope was expressed that religious courses be carried on in terms of general education rather than professional and that it be comparative rather than a means to propagate Christianity. c) The responses to Chapel, though compulsory, are highly positive. However, the need was felt to build up a favourable campus environment of wholesome personal relationships between professors and students, students and students, and students and clerical staffs as well as administrators. d) Structural ministry is impossible without the positive participation of professors and staffs who exert great influence upon students through their Christian philosophy in their teaching and office work as well as through personal relationships. The University itself must carry on a program which will train them to participate in such a structural ministry.
Hereby we also express our gratitude to the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia for the grant which made this worthwhile study feasible.