조선 후기 천주교 핍박과 현재적 함의 고찰 -『闢衛編』을 중심으로-

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this paper is to study the Catholic persecution from the reign of king Jeongjo(正祖) to king Heonjong(憲宗) and its present implications through Byeokwipyeon(『闢衛編』). Byeokwipyeon is one of the most precious literature sources for the analysis of the tragic and painful history of the late Joseon Catholicism. The Joseon Catholic Christians had suffered from fierce persecution at the hands of the Joseon government in the years in Shinyu(1801), Gihae(1839), Byeong-o(1846) and Byeong-in(1866). The Catholic Church was imprinted as an unethical religion of ‘mugunmubu’(‘no king and no father’, 無君 無父), thus, a indescribable persecution against it was an inevitable consequence.
The meaningful points of the Catholic persecution in the late Joseon Dynasty could be summarized as follows:
First, in chapter 2 of this research, I attempted to study the government’s moderate policy toward early Catholicism during Jeongjo’s reign(1776-1800).
Second, in chapter 3, I treated with the main reasons for rejecting Catholicism, focusing on the great principle of humanity and ancestor worship, the political perspective, the view of Confucian philosophy, and so on.
In addition, I suggest future extensions of this study into other discourses such as ‘the view of other religion of the Confucianist in Joseon Dynasty’, ‘the apology of the early Joseon Catholicism’, ‘the view of Fu-ru-lun’, and so forth.