기독교 교리 교육의 필요성에 관한 연구 = A Study of the Necessity of Education for Christian Doctrine

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This paper is a study of the necessity of education for Christian doctrine. There is a need for sound doctrine as well as the experience of the Holy Spirit and the new life in Christ. We must constantly subject our doctrine as well as our life and experience to the criterion the Holy Scriptures. Doctrine is no less essential, since experience, even genuine experience, that is not rightly understood can remote heresy rather than orthodoxy. A secular humanism is penetrating the bastions of both mainstream Protestantism and Catholicism. The old liberalism is facing bankruptcy, but Evangelism too is in confusion. Among many Evangelicals there is a stress on marginal doctrines instead of those that are truly fundamental, and this tends to weaken evangelical initiative and credibility especially in the academic world today. In modern Evangelicalism there exists a tension between Reformation Theology and Pietism. Modern neo-Pietism with its emphasis on religious experience and interpersonal relations underplays the doctrinal and intellectual dimensions of the faith. Evangelicalism must give due appreciation to both religious experience and doctrinal integrity, and certainly also to the call ethical obedience, if it is to become a viable option for the church of the future.