By Sunggu Yang
In this ebook Sunggu Yang proposes 5 socio-ecclesial codes as exact religion basics of Korean American Christianity. Drawing from rigorous study and years of ecclesial adventure, Yang names the codes as follows: the barren region Pilgrimage code, the Diasporic venture Code, the Confucian Egalitarian code, the Buddhist Shamanistic code, and the Pentecostal Liberation code. those 5 codes, he asserts, support Korean american citizens maintain their lives, tradition, religion, and evangelical undertaking as extraterrestrial beings or “pilgrims” within the American “wilderness.” Yang outlines how his 5 proposed codes function liberative and prophetic mechanisms of religion in which Korean american citizens can give a contribution to racial concord and cultural range in North the United States. during this feel, Korean American Christianity—its theology and spirituality—works not just on behalf of Korean americans, but in addition for the sake of all americans. Yang indicates how the Korean American pulpit is the locus the place those 5 codes look such a lot vividly.
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25 A Korean American preacher years ago evoked this situation and challenge in a hymn he wrote, the first stanza of which goes as follows: Obeying when he was called, leaving home by faith, Abraham made an altar wherever he wandered. 26 It is no wonder that Korean American preaching, formed and practiced as it is in the foundational spirituality of pilgrimage in the wilderness, takes the wilderness pilgrimage motif as one of its core themes. 27 In this sermon, Kim literally and metaphorically calls Korean Americans pilgrims called by none other than God.
31–33. , 63–86. 5 4 S. YANG starting point of most Asian American theological discussion is a deep concern with it. Lee that the marginal status of Asian Americans, which requires the building of a new positive identity, has become the key theological concern in the Asian American context. , Jesus gathered up and transformed the marginalized into his own people), in this way proposing a new and transformative Asian American identity formation in Christian faith. We will see later how this identity issue has contributed to the first socio-ecclesial code of faith within Korean American diasporic evangelicals, namely, the Wilderness Pilgrimage code.
7–11. , 31–33. , 63–86. 5 4 S. YANG starting point of most Asian American theological discussion is a deep concern with it. Lee that the marginal status of Asian Americans, which requires the building of a new positive identity, has become the key theological concern in the Asian American context. , Jesus gathered up and transformed the marginalized into his own people), in this way proposing a new and transformative Asian American identity formation in Christian faith. We will see later how this identity issue has contributed to the first socio-ecclesial code of faith within Korean American diasporic evangelicals, namely, the Wilderness Pilgrimage code.