AS is generally known, many Christian factors comes into play in the literary works by Choon-won. However, in previously published essays concerning his literary thought, exceed to one hundred in number, relationship with Choon-won and Christian influ...
AS is generally known, many Christian factors comes into play in the literary works by Choon-won. However, in previously published essays concerning his literary thought, exceed to one hundred in number, relationship with Choon-won and Christian influences were dismissed as a problem.
He influenced by Christianity when he. as 16 years, admited in the third grade of the Meiji Gakuin, Japan, in 1907, and under the school atmosphere as a missionary school he devoted to Christianity. He has managed by the thought of enlightenment throughout his works and the thought was closely correlated to Christian thought as humanism, philanthropism and principle of non-resistance.
His Christian thought was associated to the mutual relation-ship with native religion, nationalim and life-environment, and based on the above factors, the author intended to verify Choon-won's early Christian thought through the analysis of his literary works and essays.