Seoul Theological University(STU) is the only seminary of Korea Evangelical Holiness Church(KEHC). As the KEHC was becoming more independent from OMS(Oriental Missionary Society) and turned to the one denomination of the church, STU, an institution to...
Seoul Theological University(STU) is the only seminary of Korea Evangelical Holiness Church(KEHC). As the KEHC was becoming more independent from OMS(Oriental Missionary Society) and turned to the one denomination of the church, STU, an institution to educate and train the minister of KEHC, was also influenced by that result and played a leading role by native people in terms of operating the seminary. The reason why is important to study about that is the process of self-reliance resulted in influencing the development of STU. Therefore this is the study of the process of the self-reliance and development about STU. In order to study about that, especially analysis of the self-reliance process is divided into two things, administrative and financial changes from the late 1960’s. With the progress of STU as a training center of minister by native people, faculty members, students, and steering committee were changed. Firstly, for the faculty members STU depended on OMS’ decision at first but later korean dean of STU made an appointment native faculty member.
Secondly, the new students were growing and after graduating the university, graduate’s career was transformed into full-time minister of KEHC. Thirdly, steering committee was composed of OMS’ member and native people, but after self-reliance it was made up only natives. All in all, because of the analysis above, I firmly believe that self-reliance brought the great change and development of STU.