Download or read book Trinitarian Missional Christian Education for Korean Church written by Hyunjun Bae and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Korean church's ecclesio-centrism, with its focus on the self-expanding church, has brought about its loss of social credibility in Korean society. The ecclesio-centrism of the Korean church also affects its approach to Christian education, where lack of an appropriate ecclesiology has resulted in failure. Currently, this failure is manifest in three ways: Christian education is too individualistic, program-focused, and church-centered. In the Western church, a missional church paradigm has emerged to overcome the ecclesial crisis. This paradigm acknowledges the contextual change from Christendom to a Post-Christendom world and requires a paradigm shift from an ecclesio-centric to a theocentric or Trinitarian approach to mission. Following the argument that just as mission is missio-Dei, education is educatio-Dei, this thesis attempts an interdisciplinary dialogue between ecclesiology and the theory of Christian education. It explores a new approach to Christian education for the Korean church, based on a missional understanding of ecclesiology. In particular, this thesis draws valuable insights from the missional church paradigm and John Hull's Trinitarian education theory. The missional Church paradigm redefines the meaning of mission, the subject of mission, and the relationship between the church and the Kingdom of God, all of which provide a theological basis for missional Christian education, and for reclaiming the identity of the church in a post-