基督敎神學槪論 · Jeong Kyeong-ok Wroot Press · preview
나의 信條 · 1939 edition, pp. 522–533

Appendix: My Creed1

1. I believe that Christianity is the historical expression of the particular religious faith of those who follow Christ, and is itself a life that progresses and develops; and that, because it is a dynamic standard for individual and social life, there is need (A) to examine systematically the facts of past experience, and (B) to think through, theoretically, the truth of those facts of experience.2

2. I believe that Christian theology must rest on the effort (A) to examine the many kinds of religious experience in a spirit3 free of prejudice, (B) to do its utmost to find truth and its practical value, and (C) to find the absolute religion,4 which satisfies our reason and looks for the completion of life.

3. I believe that the scope of Christian theology (A) must be as wide as the experience and the life of Christians themselves; (B) that its method will be determined by the essence of Christianity itself; and (C) that its aim must be to enable Christians to bring a sound and reasonable life to completion.

4. I believe that the principles and doctrines of Christian theology (A) must have harmony and unity within themselves, and (B) must not contradict the knowledge that human beings hold to be most complete.

5. I believe that Christianity, as one of the historical religions, needs formal dogmas or doctrines able to express invisible spiritual experience.

6. I believe that, since the need for institutions and doctrines lies in making spiritual truth clearer, the whole value of any doctrine or institution lies in whether or not it expresses the spiritually real well and helps the spiritual life to grow.

7. I believe in the freedom of a faith that is genuine and wholly loyal.

8. I believe that religion is the effort to recognize the supreme reality and the supreme value of the universe, which are the source of the true individual self and of an ideal humanity, and to bring our life into accord with them.

9. I believe that religion has arisen from (A) the inner driving force of life, (B) the activity that seeks to evaluate the facts of experience, (C) the desire to complete life, and (D) the experience, prompted by the consciousness of human need, of a spiritual world of greater power and deeper meaning than these.

10. I believe that religious experience must consist in pouring out one's whole life, whether as an individual self or as a social group. I believe that true religion makes our emotional life purer, brings greater harmony to our intellectual activity, and gives our practical life a center.

11. I believe that religion is as wide as life itself and is at work in every sphere of life; and that what distinguishes religious experience from other, general experience lies in (A) trust mingled with awe, (B) entering into a personal relationship with God, and (C) consciousness of God's help.

12. I believe that religion, in our actual life, can (A) answer the most urgent and weighty questions about the universe and human life; (B) give meaning, unity, and power to the forming of the individual's personality and the purifying of social life; and (C) satisfy the noblest human longings.

13. I believe that the absolute religion (A) must not be bound to any fixed form of expression but must look to the religious attitude or spirit; (B) must take in all the truth revealed in the various religions; (C) must gladly acknowledge truth as truth, whatever religion it belongs to; and (D) must hold fast to the fundamental central principle toward which all religions are moving.

14. I believe that the existence in this world of many religions, and of many forms within a single religion, is in general due to differences of heredity, environment, and education; and that the eternal truth of religion must be expressed outwardly according to the various conditions of the individual and the society to which it is given.

15. I believe that Christianity is (A) personal communion with God5 and (B) the brotherly relation of humankind, as revealed and realized in Jesus Christ.

16. I believe that Christianity, as a historical religion, rests on (A) the great personality shown in the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth; (B) the life, overflowing with faith, love, and hope, of those who follow Christ; and (C) the religious culture that has progressed and been realized without interruption in human history, both within the Christian church and outside it.

17. I believe that Christianity, as a religion of revelation, contains (A) a cosmic and ethical view of God, (B) a personal and unified view of the universe, and (C) an excellent ideal of the value of human life.

18. I believe that when Christianity is regarded as a particular religious attitude, it is (A) the dynamic power of life gained through Christ, and (B) a spirit of absolute dependence on God.6

19. I believe that when Christianity is regarded as a social institution, that particular society must have its own forms of worship, church order, doctrine, and creeds.

20. I believe that Christianity must pledge itself to take part in the creative work of revolution, reconstruction, and development in the world, and to realize the highest ideal of the cosmic purpose.

21. I believe that Christianity, like the various other religions of the world, must be regarded as the fruit of devout human effort.

22. I believe that Christianity, as one among the religions of the world, seeks, with God's help and through the spiritual effort of human beings, to receive God's redemption.

23. I believe that Christianity (A) believes in the cosmic God who rules all things, rather than in a local god; (B) believes in a spirit that does not cling to a ready-made doctrine fixed once for all at some moment but moves toward ultimate truth; (C) believes not only in the results of a single moment but in the dynamic motive power of life; and (D) is the absolute religion, which accepts without prejudice the truth contained in every religion, so that for one who holds to Christianity there is no acknowledged need for other religions to exist.7

24. I believe that the center of Christianity lies in (A) entering into a right relationship with God, and (B) purifying life and making it abundant.

25. I believe in one living God, who creates, sustains, governs, and guides all things. I believe that God is not the sum of all things in the universe, nor any part of creation, nor a phantom drawn by human imagination or a plaything of feeling, but the spiritual reality of the true, the good, and the beautiful, which we clearly experience; and that God works without ceasing to save and to develop an imperfect universe and a humanity fallen into sin.

26. I believe that we (A) have come from God, (B) are in God, and (C) must go on to God.8

27. I believe that human beings (A) know God through the working of thought, (B) come to understand God in actual experience, and (C) have it in them to know God through prayer and meditation.

28. I believe that because God is "Life," God cannot be known apart from the concrete facts of living; because God is "the Way," God cannot be understood apart from the categories of meaning and value; and because God is "the Truth," God cannot be sought except in trust and awe.9

29. I believe in the God of experience, revealed in Jesus Christ, rather than in a god who is an abstract reality or a blind force.

30. I believe that God has infinite power to realize his self-conscious and purposive will.

31. God is holy, holy, holy. I believe that he is the source of beauty, the center of love, and the wellspring of wisdom.

32. I believe in the righteous God. I believe that he does not judge people by appearances, but gives each person an equal opportunity so that each may develop freely, and gives the creative power to bring a cosmic love to fulfillment.

33. I believe in God who is love. I believe that God's love is shown in (A) the creative will revealed in cosmic truth and purpose; (B) the redemptive activity that brings us to understand the true meaning of life and makes it more abundant; and (C) the indwelling power that brings about the complete individual self and the ideal society.

34. I believe that our knowledge of God has limits; and, since God himself has become an object of human experience, intellectually, morally, and spiritually, that our knowledge of God may be said to be limited.10

35. I believe that God may be said to transcend this universe, in that (A) God is supremely holy, has infinite power, and has the highest purpose, and (B) the existence, value, and destiny of all things depend on God.

36. I believe that God works within the process of the universe. I believe that (A) he is the great Spirit who creates, sustains, and guides the universe; (B) he is the love that gives its own life to sanctify human life; and (C) he is the power that gives our spirits inspiration, encouragement, and comfort.

37. I believe that the human being, as the highest expression of God's creative will, possesses a self-active personality11 and has within itself noble value and purpose.

38. I believe that human personality is the organic totality of many experiences and, as the conscious principle that unifies these experiences, that (A) here each person has a unique individuality, (B) here there is conscious harmony, and (C) here there is the moral reason that follows the categorical imperative of duty.12

39. I believe that human personality gains inner unity in intellectual and moral life, holds and creates value in social relationships, and finds the true being and meaning of our personality through communion with the personal God.

40. I believe in a personal world of unity, individuality, and free activity: that is, in the feeling for beauty, the evaluation of economic, political, and social relations, and the preeminence of spiritual experience.

41. I believe in social solidarity: that the individual exists for the whole, and the whole for the individual. I believe that the highest aim of human beings lies in achieving the infinite development of the individual self through the free service of holy love. I believe that the ultimate aim13 of religion lies in feeling as God feels, planning as God plans, and working as God works, in order to realize a greater self.

42. I believe in the social gospel of Christ,14 which teaches for peace and joy, health and hope, justice and love in the present age.

43. I believe that human moral capacity is not only limited by heredity and environment but is also developed by the conscious decision of the individual's free will.

44. I believe that human free will is (A) the sense of duty toward the categorical imperative of cosmic reason, and (B) the power of personality that arises from personal effort to realize the cosmic purpose.

45. I believe that the highest human ideal has been realized in the personality of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I believe that the great personality of Christ is the highest and ultimate achievement attained in human experience.

46. I believe that the life, death, and ideals of Jesus Christ serve (A) to reconcile humanity to God,15 (B) to bring humanity to know God, and (C) through human beings, to bring humankind to know and to practice its brotherhood.

47. I believe that the mission of Jesus Christ was "to preach the gospel to the poor, to set the captives free, to give sight again to the blind, to set at liberty the oppressed, and to proclaim the blessed year of the Lord."16 I believe that the mission of the Christian is to carry on the mission of Christ and to accomplish his work.

48. I hold that the Christian life consists in freely imitating the spirit of Jesus Christ: living the life of Christ, having the mind of Christ, making the compassion of Christ one's own, loving the God whom he loved, living by the will of God that he followed, and hoping for the ideal society that he showed us.

49. I believe that the Christian life consists in experiencing God's helping power in moral and spiritual life, and in striving to realize the will of God in our economic, social, and political life.

50. The fundamental aim of Christianity lies in giving people the motive power of life; but I do not follow the position that it has no need to intervene directly in economics, politics, or education.

51. I believe that Christians who believe there is an eternal purpose in the spiritual world, and who strive for the completion of the self, become conscious of sin when they fail to reach this ideal or consciously leave this path.

52. I believe that sin is one's own consciousness of wrong ideas, wrong attitudes, wrong actions, and wrong results with respect to oneself, to others (individuals or society), and to God.

53. I believe that sin (A) has social effects and (B) carries social responsibility.

54. I believe that sin is not only the waste of life but rebellion against God.

55. I believe that sin gives birth to death, and that sin itself is death.

56. I believe that truth, justice, beauty, and love are ceaselessly created and advance.

57. I believe that the saying that this universe, as the expression of God's purposive will, becomes a good world, teaches that it becomes a world with order and unity, both material and spiritual.

58. I believe that all the phenomena of the natural world, the majestic courses of the heavenly bodies and the beautiful things on earth, show forth the glory of God.

59. I believe that, in spite of the many elements and conditions in this world that make for decline, it is progressing without ceasing.

60. I believe that God's justice and love can win, and will win, the final victory on earth.

61. I believe that the spiritual value of personality continues to develop and will be preserved forever.

62. I believe that under the love of God there will be opportunity for spiritual and social relationships to continue17 forever.

63. I believe that our existence, bodily and mental alike,18 has been created by God and, as the expression of God's holy economy,19 has a value eternal and incorruptible.

64. I believe in the church of Christ. I believe that the church of Christ, as a self-governing body of those who follow Christ, must maintain doctrines and rites in order (A) to worship God publicly, (B) for its members to have fellowship with one another, and (C) to hope for and extend the kingdom of God.

65. I believe that the institutions of the Christian church must be organs for the expression of spiritual experience, and must answer to the inner needs of the individuals and the society to which the church belongs.

66. I believe that religious strife and sectarian division come from a narrow spirit and go against the fundamental spirit of Christ.

67. I believe that, since in Christianity various denominations arise as the outward forms of its experience differ with individuals and societies, there is no need to be distressed by denominational division, provided these denominations work together to accomplish the broad and great will of God.

68. I believe that under God the Father all peoples, whatever their color, whatever their sex,20 whatever their age, are alike precious brothers and sisters. Therefore I believe that when the many suffer a fundamental blow to their livelihood and to the growth of their personality for the private gain of a few, this goes against the will of God in the development of society as a whole.

69. I believe that Christians, on the ground of God's righteousness and love, must love their own families, love their own people, and be loyal to the country.21

70. I believe that freedom is a privilege one can have by one's own strength, rather than something obtained because others give it.22

71. I believe in the life of love of Jesus Christ. Injustice must be fought to the end. But I believe that I must overcome evil with good.23

(End of An Introduction to Christian Theology)

Notes

  1. 나의 信條, "My Creed": 71 articles in the first person, the last text in the book. It restates the book's argument as confession: articles 1–4 compress Part I, ch. 1 (theology as historical, theoretical, practical; harmony within and with other knowledge). Throughout the Creed Jeong prints 하느님 for "God," never 하나님 (contrast the preface; preface, note 5). Source question: the numbered, sub-lettered form and much of the language (personality, social solidarity, the social gospel, brotherhood, the God of experience) are those of American liberal and Methodist credal writing of 1900–1935. [Rall?] Check against Rall, and against the Methodist Episcopal Church's Social Creed (1908/1912) for articles 41–42, 49–50, and 68. ↩
  2. 【一】 has sub-points A and B only; there is no C. ↩
  3. 精神. The word holds together what English divides between "spirit" and "mind" (German Geist; not the Holy Spirit, 聖靈). The Creed uses it eight times, and the English follows the context each time. It is "spirit" for a disposition or temper: "in a spirit free of prejudice" (art. 2, equally "with an unprejudiced mind"), "the religious attitude or spirit" (art. 13), "a spirit that … moves toward ultimate truth" (art. 23), and "a narrow spirit … the fundamental spirit of Christ" (art. 66, twice). It is also "spirit" in "a spirit of absolute dependence" (art. 18, n. 6) and in "the spirit of Jesus Christ" (art. 48). In art. 48 Jeong himself sets 精神 beside 마음 ("having the mind of Christ"), so there the two English words answer to two Korean ones. In art. 63 the pairing with the body turns it toward "mind" (n. 18). ↩
  4. 絕對宗敎, "absolute religion": Hegel's and Troeltsch's term (die absolute Religion), also the title of Part III, ch. 5 (基督敎의 絕對性 "the absoluteness of Christianity," after Troeltsch's Die Absolutheit des Christentums). Fixed rendering. ↩
  5. 人格的 交通, "personal communion." 交通 here is fellowship or communion (as in 聖徒의 交通, "the communion of saints"), not "traffic" or "intercourse." Fixed rendering. ↩
  6. 絕對 依賴하는 精神, "a spirit of absolute dependence": Schleiermacher's schlechthinniges Abhängigkeitsgefühl. On 精神 see n. 3. ↩
  7. 【二三】D is rendered closely because it is easily misread. Jeong does not say other religions are false (articles 13–14 and 21 say the opposite). He says Christianity, being the absolute religion that takes up the truth of all religions, leaves the one who holds it with no need for another religion. ↩
  8. Rom 11:36 ("of him, and through him, and to him, are all things"). ↩
  9. John 14:6, in the order Life, Way, Truth; Jeong reorders "way, truth, life" to pair each title with a mode of knowing. ↩
  10. 【三四】 as printed says the same thing twice: "our knowledge of God has limits; and, since God has become an object of human experience…, our knowledge of God may be said to be limited." The second clause should give a reason, and the likely sense is qualified or real but limited knowledge. A word may have dropped out (e.g. 制限이 있으나 … 知識이 있다). Translated as printed (ruled 2026-09-15). Check the 삼원서원 edition here too. ↩
  11. 自活的人格, literally "self-living personality": a personality that lives and acts from itself. Rendered "self-active." ↩
  12. 無上的命令 = 無上命令, the standard Sino-Japanese rendering of Kant's categorical imperative. Also in 【四四】. ↩
  13. Printed 究意目的, for 究竟目的 "ultimate aim" (意/竟 confusion, checked at full resolution). ↩
  14. 社會的福音, "the social gospel," the American movement's name (Rauschenbusch). Keep it lower-case and literal. ↩
  15. Printed 사람을 하느님께서 和解하며, "God reconciles humanity" (께서 = honorific subject), which clashes with the subject of the sentence (Christ's life, death, and ideals). Read 하느님께 "to God." Probably a typesetting slip. ↩
  16. Luke 4:18–19, in Jeong's Korean (the 「」 quotation marks are his). 主의 福된 해 "the blessed year of the Lord" (KJV "the acceptable year of the Lord"). ↩
  17. Printed 支續, for 持續 "continue." ↩
  18. 肉體나 精神을 勿論하고, "bodily and mental alike." 精神 (dikaisune rule; see n. 3): set against 肉體 "the body," the word leans toward "mind." Jeong is affirming that the whole human being is God's creation, the physical and the psychological together. "Bodily and spiritual alike" is also a fair rendering, and the Korean does not choose between them. "Mental" is kept because "spiritual" in English would suggest a soul set apart from the body, which the article's "alike" rules out. ↩
  19. 經綸, "economy" in the theological sense (oikonomia): God's ordering and dispensation. ↩
  20. Printed 姓 ("surname, clan"), almost certainly for 性 ("sex"): color, sex, and age are the standard triad, and "brothers and sisters" follows. Rendered "sex" provisionally. If 姓 is meant, it would be "lineage." HELD: check the modern edition, 『기독교 신학 개론』 (삼원서원, NLK dates it 2010; call no. 231-10-81, print only), for its reading here. ↩
  21. 自己 民族 "their own people" and 나라 "the country." In 1939 the state was the Japanese Empire; 民族 is the word for the Korean people. The Korean does not say which country; the English keeps it equally unspecified. ↩
  22. Printed in a colonial setting in 1939. Do not interpret it in the notes. ↩
  23. Rom 12:21. 【七一】 is misset as 七【一】. ↩

The 1939 text, transcribed as printed: one line per printed column, set vertically and read right to left. [sic] marks a printing error, corrected in the notes.

p. 五二二
나의 信條 【一】 基督敎는 그리스도를 따르는 사람의 特殊한 宗敎信仰의 歷史的 表現이며 進步發達하는 生活 自體이며、個人과 社會生活의 動的 標準이 되기때문에 【A】 過去의 經驗事實을 組織的으로 考察하며 【B】 그 經驗事實의 眞理性을 理論的으로 思惟할 必要가 있다고 믿는다。 【二】 基督敎神學은 【A】 여러가지 宗敎的 經驗들을 偏見이 없는 精神을 가지고 檢討하며 【B】 眞 理와 그 實際的價値를 찾기 爲하여서 最善을 다하며 【C】 우리의 理性에 滿足을 주며 生의 完成 을 期하는 絕對宗敎를 찾으려는 努力에 基礎하여야 할것을 믿는다。 【三】 基督敎神學의 範圍는 【A】 基督敎人의 經驗과 生 그것만큼 넓어야 할것이며 【B】 그 方法 은 基督敎의 本質 그것에 依하여서 決定될것이며 【C】 그 目的은 基督敎人으로하여금 健全하고 合 理的인 生을 完成하게 하려는데 있어야 할것을 믿는다。 【四】 基督敎神學의 原理와 敎理는 【A】 그 自體 內部에 調和와 統一이 있어야 할것이며 【B】 人 間의 가장 完全하다고 믿는 知識과 矛盾이 없어야 할것을 믿는다。
p. 五二三
【五】 基督敎는 歷史的宗敎의 하나로서 보이지 아니하는 靈的經驗을 表現할만한 形式的인 敎條나 敎 理가 必要하다는것을 믿는다。 【六】 制度와 敎理의 必要는 靈的眞理를 더 밝히는데 있기때문에 敎理나 制度의 全價値는 靈的實 在를 잘 表現하고 또 靈的生活 向上에 도움이 되고 되지 아니하는데 있다는것을 믿는다。 【七】 나는 眞正하고 忠誠을 다하는 信仰의 自由를 믿는다。 【八】 宗敎는 眞正한 個我와 理想的 人類의 本源이 되는 宇宙의 至高한 實體와 至高한 價値를 認 知하며 또 여기에 우리의 生을 適應하려는 努力이라고 믿는다。 【九】 宗敎는 【A】 生의 內的推動勢力과 【B】 經驗事實을 評價하려는 活動과 【C】 生을 完成하려 는 欲望과 【D】 사람의 欲求意識으로 말미암아 이보다 더 큰 勢力과 이보다 더 깊은 意味가 있 는 靈界를 經驗하는데서 일어난것이라고 믿는다。 【一〇】 宗敎經驗은 個我로나 社會集團으로서 그 生 全體를 傾注하는데 있어야 할것을 믿는다。참 된 宗敎는 우리의 感情的生活이 더욱 淨化하며 우리의 知的活動에 더욱 調和가 생기고 우리의 實 際方面에 中心을 얻게 된다는것을 믿는다。 【一一】 宗敎는 生 自體의 範圍가 넓은것만큼 넓어서 生의 全局面에 作用하여 있으며 宗敎經驗이 다른 一般經驗과 같지 아니한 特質은 【A】 敬畏的 信賴心과 【B】 神과 人格的 關係를 짓는것과 【C】
p. 五二四
神의 도움을 意識하는데 있다고 믿는다。 【一二】 宗敎는 우리의 實生活에 있어서 【A】 宇宙와 人生에 對한 가장 緊切하고 가장 重大한 問 題에 解答을 주며 【B】 個我의 人格을 形成하며 社會의 生活을 淨化하는데 있어서 그 意義와 統一 과 勢力을 주며 【C】 사람의 가장 高貴한 欲求를 채워줄수 있는것을 믿는다。 【一三】 絕對宗敎는 【A】 어떤 定規的 表現形式에만 얽매이지 않고 宗敎的態度 或은 精神에 着眼하 며 【B】 여러가지 宗敎에 啓示된 眞理를 全部 含蓄하여야 할것이며 【C】 眞理일진대 어떠한 宗敎 에 屬하였든지를 勿論하고 快然히 이를 承認하여야 할것이며 【D】 모든 宗敎들이 向하여 나아가는 根本 的 中心原則에 執着하여야 할것임을 믿는다。 【一四】 이 世上에 여러가지 宗敎들이 있고 한 宗敎 안에도 여러가지 形態가 있는것은 大體로 보 아서 遺傳과 環境과 敎育의 差異에 起因한것이며 宗敎의 永遠한 眞理는 반드시 그 許與한 個人과 社會의 여러가지 條件에 依하여서 外的으로 表現하여야 할것을 믿는다。 【一五】 基督敎는 예수 그리스도 안에 啓示되고 또 實現된바 【A】 하느님과의 人格的 交通이며 【B】 人類의 兄弟的 關係인것을 믿는다。 【一六】 基督敎는 歷史的 宗敎로서 【A】 나사렛 예수의 生活과 죽음에 나타난 그 偉大한 人格과 【B】 그리스도를 따르는 사람들의 信仰과 사랑과 所望에 넘치는 生活과 【C】 基督敎會 안에서나 敎
p. 五二五
會 밖에 있어서 人類歷史 가운데 間斷이 없이 進步하며 實現된 宗敎的 文化에 基礎하여 있다는것을 믿는다。 【一七】 基督敎는 啓示宗敎로서 【A】 宇宙的이며 倫理的인 神觀과 【B】 人格的이며 統一的인 宇宙 觀과 【C】 人生의 價値에 對한 卓越한 理想을 含蓄하여 있다는것을 믿는다。 【一八】 基督敎를 一種의 特殊한 宗敎的 態度라고 볼 때에는 【A】 그리스도로 因하야 얻는 生의 動的勢力이며 【B】 하느님에게 對한 絕對 依賴하는 精神이라는것을 믿는다。 【一九】 基督敎를 一種의 社會制度로 볼 때에는 그 特殊社會에 獨特한 禮拜形式과 敎會制度와 敎 理 及 信條가 있어야 할것을 믿는다。 【二〇】 基督敎는 世界에 革命과 改造와 發展의 創造的 事業에 干與하여 宇宙的 目的의 最高理想 을 實現할것을 誓約하여야 할것을 믿는다。 【二一】 基督敎는 世界 여러가지 다른 宗敎들과 같이 人間의 敬虔한 努力의 成果이라고 看做하여야 할것을 믿는다。 【二二】 基督敎는 世界 諸 宗敎中 하나로서 하느님의 도움을 받아 人間의 靈的 努力으로 하느님 의 救贖을 입으려고 하는것임을 믿는다。 【二三】 基督敎는 【A】 地方的인 神보다도 萬有를 다스리는 宇宙的인 하느님을 믿으며 【B】 어느 때 한번 決定된 既成 敎理에 固執하지 않고 究竟的 眞理를 向하야 나아가는 精神을 믿으며 【C】 다
p. 五二六
만 한때의 結果만을 보지 아니하고 生의 動的 原動力을 믿으며 【D】 모든 宗敎에 含蓄하여 있는 眞理를 偏見이 없이 容認하는 絕對宗敎이기때문에 基督敎를 信奉하는 以上 다른 宗敎의 存在의 必要를 認定하지 않는것을 믿는다。 【二四】 基督敎의 中心은 【A】 하느님과 옳은 關係를 맺으며 【B】 生을 淨化하며 豐足하게 하려 는데 있다는것을 믿는다。 【二五】 나는 萬有를 創造하시고 支持하시고 統治하시고 指導하시는 한분 살아계신 하느님을 믿는다。 하느님은 宇宙의 모든 事物을 合한 總合이 아니며 創造物의 어떠한 一部分이 아니며 사람의 想像 으로 그려낸 幻影이나 感情의 遊戲物이 아니라 우리들이 明確하게 經驗하고 있는 眞과 善과 美의 靈的 實體로서 不完全한 宇宙와 罪에 빠져 있는 人生을 救援하며 發達하게 하려고 끊임없는 努力 을 하신다고 믿는다。 【二六】 우리는 【A】 하느님에게로부터 왔으며 【B】 하느님 안에 있으며 【C】 하느님에게로 나아 가야만 할것을 믿는다。 【二七】 사람은 【A】 思惟作用으로서 하느님을 認識하며 【B】 實際經驗에 있어서 하느님을 깨닫고 【C】 祈禱와 默想으로 하느님을 알만한 可能性이 있다는것을 믿는다。 【二八】 하느님은 『生命』이기때문에 具體的인 生活事實을 떠나서 그를 알수가 없으며 하느님은 『길』이기때
p. 五二七
문에 意義와 價値의 範疇를 떠나서 그를 깨달을수 없으며 하느님은 『眞理』이기때문에 信賴와 敬畏 의 念이 아니고는 그를 찾을수 없다는것을 믿는다。 【二九】 나는 抽象的 實體나 盲目的 勢力인 神보다는 예수 그리스도 안에 나타난 經驗의 하느님 을 믿는다。 【三〇】 하느님은 그의 自意識的이며 目的的인 뜻을 實現할만한 無限한 能力이 있는것을 믿는다。 【三一】 하느님은 거룩하고 거룩하고 거룩하시다。그는 美의 根源이며 사랑의 中心이며 知慧의 淵 源이신것을 믿는다。 【三二】 나는 義로우신 하느님을 믿는다。그는 사람을 外貌로 取하지 아니하며 各個人에게 均一한 機 會를 주어서 各自가 自由로 發展하도록 하며 宇宙的 사랑을 成就할만한 創造的 能力을 주신다는것을 믿 는다。 【三三】 나는 사랑이 되시는 하느님을 믿는다。하느님의 사랑은 【A】 宇宙的眞理와 目的에 나타난 創造的意志와 【B】 生의 참 뜻을 깨달아서 더 豐足하게 하는 救贖的 活動과 【C】 完全한 個我、理 想的인 社會를 이루도록 하시는 內在的 能力에 나타나 있다는것을 믿는다。 【三四】 하느님에게 對한 우리의 知識에 制限이 있고 하느님 自身이 知的으로나 道德的으로나 靈 的으로 人間經驗의 對象이 되어 있다는 點으로 보아서 하느님께 對한 우리의 知識은 制限이 있다
p. 五二八
고 할수 있는것을 믿는다。 【三五】 【A】 하느님은 至極히 거룩하시고 無限한 能力이 있고 至高한 目的이 있다는것과 【B】 萬 有의 存在와 價値와 運命이 하느님께 매였다는 點으로 보아서 하느님은 이 宇宙를 超越하여 계신 다고 할수 있다는것을 믿는다。 【三六】 하느님은 宇宙의 過程 안에 있어서 일하시는것을 믿는다。【A】 그는 宇宙를 創造하시고 支 持하시고 指導하시는 大靈이시며 【B】 自己의 生命 自體를 주어서 人間의 生命을 聖化하려고 하는 사랑이시며 【C】 우리의 靈에 感化와 激勵와 慰安을 주는 能力이신것을 믿는다。 【三七】 사람은 하느님의 創造的 意志의 最高表現으로서 自活的人格의 所有者이며 그 自體 안에 高 貴한 價値와 目的이 있다는것을 믿는다。 【三八】 사람의 人格은 여러가지 經驗의 機體的 總全이며 이 經驗을 統一하는 意識的 原則으로서 【A】 이 곳에 各自의 獨特한 個性이 있고 【B】 이 곳에 意識的 調和가 있으며 【C】 義務의 無上的 命令을 따라가는 道德的理性이 있다는것을 믿는다。 【三九】 사람의 人格은 知的이며 道德的인 生活에 있어서 內的統一을 얻으며 社會的關係에 있어서 價値의 保有와 創造가 있고 人格的인 하느님과 交通함으로 말미암아 우리 人格의 참된 存在와 意 義를 찾는다고 믿는다。
p. 五二九
【四〇】 나는 統一과 個性과 自由活動이 있는 人格的 世界、卽 美에 對한 느낌과 經濟、政治 及 社會的 關係의 評價와 靈的 經驗의 優越性을 믿는다。 【四一】 나는 社會的 連帶性 卽 個體는 全體를 위하여 있고 全部는 個體를 위하야 있다는것을 믿 는다。사람의 最高目的이 거룩한 사랑의 自由奉仕로 말미암아 個我의 無限한 發展을 이루는데 있는 것을 믿는다。나는 宗敎의 究意[sic]目的이 더 큰 自我를 實現하기 爲하여서 하느님과 같이 느끼며 하 느님과 같이 計劃하며 하느님과 같이 일하는데 있다고 믿는다。 【四二】 나는 現代에 있어서 平和와 기쁨、健康과 所望、正義와 사랑을 위하여서 가르치는 그리스 도의 社會的福音을 믿는다。 【四三】 나는 사람의 道德的 素質이 다만 遺傳과 環境의 制限을 받을뿐만 아니라 個我의 自由意志 의 意識的判定에 依하야 開發된다는것을 믿는다。 【四四】 사람의 自由意志는 【A】 宇宙的 理性의 無上的 命令에 對한 義務感이며 【B】 宇宙的 目 的을 實現하려는 人格的 努力에서 일어나는 人格의 힘이란것을 믿는다。 【四五】 나는 사람의 最高理想이 나사렛 예수 그리스도의 人格에 實現되었다는것을 믿는다。그리스 도의 크신 人格은 人間經驗에서 成就하야 얻은 最高 窮極인것을 믿는다。 【四六】 예수 그리스도의 生活과 죽음과 理想은 【A】 사람을 하느님께서 和解하며 【B】 사람으로
p. 五三〇
하여금 하느님을 알게 하며 【C】 사람으로 말미암아 人類가 兄弟인것을 알며 實行하게 함에 있는것 을 믿는다。 【四七】 예수 그리스도의 使命은 「가난한者에게 福音을 傳하며 사로잡힌者를 解放하며 눈먼者를 다 시 보게 하며 눌린者를 自由롭게 하며 主의 福된 해를 傳播」하는데 있었다는것을 믿는다。그리스도 人의 使命은 그리스도의 使命을 이어서 그 事業을 成就하는데 있다는것을 믿는다。 【四八】 그리스도人의 生活은 예수 그리스도의 精神을 自由롭게 模倣하여서 그리스도의 生活을 生 活하며 그리스도의 마음을 가지며 그리스도의 同情心을 體得하고 그가 사랑하던 하느님을 사랑하며 그 가 따르던 하느님의 뜻을 따라서 살며 그가 보여준 理想的 社會를 바라는데 있다고 본다。 【四九】 그리스도人의 生活은 道德的이며 靈的生活에서 하느님의 도우시는 힘을 體驗하며 우리의 經 濟生活이나 社會生活이나 政治生活에 하느님의 뜻을 實現하려고 努力하는데 있다는것을 믿는다。 【五〇】 基督敎의 根本目的은 사람에게 生活의 原動力을 주는데 있으나 經濟나 政治나 敎育에는 直 接干涉할 必要가 없다는 立場을 따르지아니한다。 【五一】 靈界에 永遠한 目的이 있다는것을 믿고 自我의 完成을 위하여서 努力하는 基督敎人은 이 러한 理想을 達하지 못하거나 或은 意識的으로 이 길을 떠나갈 때에 罪를 意識한다는것을 믿는 다。
p. 五三一
【五二】 罪는 自我와 다른 사람(個人이나 社會)과 하느님에게 對하여서 잘못된 觀念、그릇된 態度、 그릇된 行動、그릇된 結果를 스스로 意識하는것이라고 믿는다。 【五三】 罪는 【A】 社會的 影響이 있으며 【B】 社會的 責任이 있다는것을 믿는다。 【五四】 罪는 生의 消費일뿐만 아니라 하느님에게 對한 背逆이란것을 믿는다。 【五五】 罪는 死亡을 낳으며 罪 自體가 곧 死亡인것을 믿는다。 【五六】 나는 眞理와 正義와 美와 사랑이 間斷이 없이 創造 進步한다는것을 믿는다。 【五七】 이 宇宙는 하느님의 目的的 意志의 表現으로서 좋은 世上이 된다는 말은 物質的으로나 靈 的으로 秩序와 統一이 있는 世上이 된다는것을 가르친것이라고 믿는다。 【五八】 나는 自然界의 모든 現象 卽 天體의 壯嚴한 運行과 땅에 아름다운것이 다 하느님의 榮光 을 나타내고 있다고 믿는다。 【五九】 이 世上에는 여러가지로 退化하게 하는 要素와 條件이 있음에도 不拘하고 間斷이 없이 進 步하고 있다는것을 믿는다。 【六〇】 나는 하느님의 正義와 사랑이 땅에서 最後의 勝利를 얻을수 있으며 얻게 될것을 믿는다。 【六一】 나는 人格의 靈的價値가 繼續的으로 發達하며 永遠히 保存될것을 믿는다。 【六二】 나는 하느님의 사랑 아래에서 靈的인 社會的 關係를 永遠이 支續[sic]할만한 機會가 있을것을
p. 五三二
믿는다。 【六三】 우리의 存在는 肉體나 精神을 勿論하고 하느님의 創造를 받았으며 하느님의 거룩한 經綸 의 表現으로서 永遠하고도 썩지 아니할 價値가 있다는것을 믿는다。 【六四】 나는 그리스도의 敎會를 믿는다。그리스도의 敎會는 그리스도를 따르는 者들의 自治集團으로서 【A】 하느님을 公衆的으로 禮拜하며 【B】 敎衆이 서로 사귀며 【C】 하느님의 나라를 바라며 擴張하 기 위하여서 敎理와 儀式을 具存하여야 할것을 믿는다。 【六五】 基督敎會 制度는 반드시 靈的經驗의 表現機關이 되어야 할것이며 그 敎會가 屬하여 있는 個人과 社會의 內的欲求에 應하여야 할것을 믿는다。 【六六】 여러가지 宗敎的 分爭과 派別的 分裂은 偏狹한 精神으로 말미암은것이며 그리스도의 根本 精神에 어그러짓다는것을 믿는다。 【六七】 基督敎는 個人과 社會를 따라 그 經驗의 外的形態가 다른이만큼 여러가지 敎派가 생기므 로 이러한 여러가지 敎派가 하느님의 넓고 크신 뜻을 이루기 위하여서 協同할진대 구태여 宗派의 分裂을 괴롭게 생각할것이 없다는것을 믿는다。 【六八】 나는 아버지 되시는 하느님 아래 萬民이 色의 如何、姓의 如何、年齡의 如何를 勿論하고 다 같이 貴한 兄弟이며 姉妹인것을 믿는다。그러므로 少數의 사람의 私利를 위하여서 多數가 그 生
p. 五三三
活과 人格 向上에 根本的 打擊을 當하게 된다는것은 社會 總全의 發展過程에 있어서 하느님의 뜻 에 어그러졌다는것을 믿는다。 【六九】 基督敎人은 하느님의 義와 사랑에 根據하여서 自己의 家庭을 사랑하며 自己 民族을 사랑 하며 나라에 忠誠 하여야 할것을 믿는다。 【七〇】 나는 自由란것은 다른 사람이 주어서 얻는것보다도 自己의 實力으로 가질수 있는 特權인 것을 믿는다。 七【一】 나는 예수 그리스도의 사랑의 生活을 믿는다。不正義는 어디까지든지 싸와야 할것이다。그 러나 나는 善으로써 惡을 이겨야 할것을 믿는다。 (基督敎神學槪論 終)