현대 서구 개신교 선교에 있어서의 제국주의적 경향성에 대한 비판적 관점들

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article aims at examining some notable critical perspectives on the imperialist implications of the modern Westem (chiefly Anglo-American) Protestant missions. Before dealing with the critical perspectives, we first reflect on the traditional, uncritical perspective on the missions, whose principle is that Westernization is Christianization." We then choose three groups each of whom has kept its own distinctive critical perspective on the missions: first, some Anglo- American missionaries; second, some European mission scholars; and third, some post -colonialist scholars. The first group`s critical perspective on the missions gives us a thorough critique of the traditional perspective as well as an alternative positive way of mission that can overcome an apparently imperialist way of mission. The second group`s perspective shows a remarkable critique of the philosophical background of the Anglo- American missions, but it fails to offer a thorough description of how an imperialist mission took place. Finally the third, post-colonialist perspective gives us an insightful explanation of how an imperialist Westem mission took place, but it is silent about an alternative positive way of mission. All of these three critical perspectives on the missions indicate that the modem Anglo-American Protestant missions had by nature a logic, "Westernization is Christianization," which itself had a cultural imperialist inclination. They also suggest that the cultural imperialist implication of the missions has had a harmful influence on the missionized people, who have become dependent on Western theologies, while being unable to develop their own.