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This paper was written as the response at a level of a member church with regard to Ecumenical Churches’ mission theology statement which was promulgated at the 2013 Busan WCC Assembly. The only second WCC statement which expressed its position about mission work was ‘Towards Life together’ in 2013 since ‘Ecumenical Affirmation’ in 1982. The 2013 statement was described, harmonizing the three subjects of ‘Life’, ‘Mission Woork’ and ‘Holy Spirit.’ The new statement says that ‘mission work’ is the work of the Holy Spirit which makes ‘life’ plentiful. By the way, the statement says that the way to revive this ‘life’ begins/is completed with caring for the ‘social fringe’; however, the 1982 statement already saw through the importance of ‘fringe’, but the 2013 statement got to maintain ‘the mission work from the surroundings’ beyond ‘the mission work heading for the surroundings’ other than staying at such a level(importance of the fringe). The new statement is describing why the fringe should be a subject of mission work very concretely. The urgency, importance and method & evaluation of mission work is wholly experienced through these ‘Marginal Men.’ However, it’s not natural for a marginal man to voluntarily become a leading role of mission work. It’s because even a marginal man could perpetrate estrangement and ostracism on his relatively weak person in same way as the vested right holders. To become a subject of mission work, a marginal man should look around other marginal men carefully. A marginal man comes to begin mission work by claiming his rights already from the position of a little one, and comes to achieve ‘the mission work from the surroundings“ when he continuously bands together for other marginal men’s issues. New awareness of the role of a marginal man has become a clue to opening a new level of Theology of Diakonia after all. The paradigm shift towards such a marginal man is named ‘A Little One Theology.’ This writing got to look at the promising future of mission theology by clarifying that the concept of ‘Marginal Man’ which was developed through the analysis of WCC literature, which got the missionary meaning of ‘Marginal Man’ developed until 1982 since WCC was launched, and WCC literature, which succeedingly served to the understanding of ‘Marginal Man’ until 2013, confirming the missionary significance of this ‘Marginal Man’ from Theology of Diakonia, and lastly suggesting the models and educational cases available for mission work from the surroundings. We call the mission-theology-based understanding of this ‘mission work from the surroundings’ ‘A Little One Theology.’
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World Council of Churches(WCC), Mission Theology Statement, Life, Marginal Man, A Little One, Diakonia
