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영어

This theses dealt with the formation of the Presbyterian Church in Korea (Kosin) in the 1950’s Presbyterian Context. After liberation of 1945, Kim Kil Chang and other pastors who had engaged to pro-Japanese activities including Shinto Worship formed a new Kyung Nam Presbytery illegally. The then General Assembly joined with the rebel presbytery in fellowship, without requiring the pastors who were under discipline to make any public confession of their idolatry and rebellion against the legal presbytery. Since this was contrary to all law and order, the legal presbytery refused to do what the General Assembly sought to require. The final upshot of it all was that the General Assembly refused to seat the commissioners from the legal presbytery in Busan, and eventually pushed out from the General Assembly. This left the legal Kyung Nam presbytery no choice but to organize a new denomination, which was the beginning of the Presbyterian Church in Korea (Kosin).

한국어

이 논문은 해방 후의 상황에서 어떤 배경과 이유에서 고신교회가 형성되었는가를 역사적으로 추적한 글이다. 해방 후 김길창을 비롯한 친일 전력의 교권주의자들의 사조 경남노회 조직이 경남노회 그리고 한국 장로교회 분열의 시작이었고, 당시 (남부)총회가 경남노회 문제를 정당하게 취급하지 않는 결과로 정통성을 지닌 경남법통노회가 총회로부터 축출된 것이 고신교단 형성의 배경이 된다는 점을 역사적으로 논증하였다.