성결교회의 성서해석과 예전 이명직 목사의 로마서 해석에 대한 비평적 고찰 = A Critical Review on Rev. Yi, Myung Jik`s Interpretation of the Epistle to the Romans

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Yi, Myung-Jik was an ordained pastor, spiritual leader, church dogmatist, and biblical scholar who greatly contributed to the foundation and development of Korean Evangelical Holiness Church (KEHC below). This paper explores Yi`s life and theology as an attempt to reconstruct KEHC`s historical background and theological identity. The paper particularly focuses on Yi`s view of the Bible and his principles for biblical interpretation reflected in his Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. The commentary is included in the Complete Works of Yi, Myung-Jik which was recently published by Institute for the Studies of Modern Christianity in Seoul Theological University and the works facilitates studies on him. This paper suggests that Yi employed the following five principles in interpreting the Bible: the Fourfold Gospel principle; the spirit of the Wesleyan holiness movement; dispensationalism; reading the New Testament as the fulfillment of the Old Testament; morphological interpretation; allegorical literalism. Yi did not use high criticism and accepted the whole Bible, both the Old Testament and the New Testament, as absolutely inspired. This view is close to the biblical interpretation principles of the Wesleyan holiness movement. Nevertheless, Yi was inadvertent to the eschatological urgency and dynamic in Paul, which resonate with the vitality of the Fourfold Gospel. Unlike Paul, Yi was unable to encourage his audience to live out God`s righteousness of the last days, although Yi`s audience may have been in the existential context similar to Paul`s contemporaries.