This paper aims to analyze the previous studies on pastor Seon-Ju Gil and to suggest present implications, focusing on his thought of eschatology. The author considers the prominent discourses on Gil’s thought of eschatology and present implications...
This paper aims to analyze the previous studies on pastor Seon-Ju Gil and to suggest present implications, focusing on his thought of eschatology. The author considers the prominent discourses on Gil’s thought of eschatology and present implications in the previous studies as follows: Firstly, the author considered the practice of love for the Korean people such as brotherly love, contextualization of Christianity, eradication of communist ideas, and so on from the perspective of ‘eschatology-patriotism’. Secondly, the author argued the true faith of Christians such as the establishment of biblical fundamentalism, the pursuit of spirituality, the refusal of the Shinto shrine worship, and so on from the perspective of ‘eschatology-faith routes’. Thirdly, the author dealt with the thought of eschatology such as the birth point of apocalyptic thought, the theory of the imminent second coming, prophecy about the time of the second coming, the theory of millennium, and so on from the perspective of ‘eschatology-views of eschatology’. Fourthly, the author suggested the practical lessons and implications based on the results of this study to today’s Korean Christians such as the practice of patriotism, the transmission of true faith and the inspiration of internal spirituality, the education of eschatology, and so on.