Nonduality of Novum and Earth

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The socio-cultural justification of pagandom and paganism as a redemptive event of indigenization is to be achieved in the process of sanctifying the pagan cultures. Sanctification is supposed to attain the goal of Christian perfection, which means the perfect realization of nonduality of novum and earth. Christianty has been usually considered by Koreans to be new and strange to their old cults. From the beginning of the evangelization in the "land of the morning calm" the pagan religions and cultures were the first enemy that the Christian mission had to overcome, for they seemed to be either idolatry or anti-Christian cultures, though Christians agreed to some extent to the humanism, the ideal of ethical values, and the good customs of Yu-Bul-Seon. 111 fact, Christians have not done justice to these conventional religions because the logic of "black and white" made them misunderstand the pagan cults in the way goodness should be ascribed to Christianity, and evel to paganism.