Understanding Korean Christianity: Grassroot Perspectives on Causes, Culture, and Responses

by K. Kale Yu

The cultural landscape plays a momentous role in the transmission of Christianity. Consequently, the global expansion of the church has led to the increasing diversification of world Christianity. As a result, scholars are turning more and more to native cultures as the point of focus. This study examines how this new discourse evolved as well as presenting a missional methodology based on the study of the native landscapes of Korea. Kale Yu argues that the process of formulating and communicating Christianity was less consistent than is usually supposed. By immersing the reader in the thought and lived experience of various Korean contexts, Professor Yu recreates the diversity of cultural landscapes experienced by Korean Christians of different periods in history. The result is a new interpretation of cross-cultural missional interactions.

330 pages, Hardcover

Published October 14, 2019

Reviews

[Carson Knauff]

An interesting read but lacks a central message or consistency. Each chapter seems dislocated from the other and like a different author could write for each chapter. Still some intriguing ideas and always good to learn about how others follow Jesus.