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A History of Korean Christianity Kindle Edition
by Sebastian C. H. Kim (Author), Kirsteen Kim (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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With a third of South Koreans now identifying themselves as Christian, Christian churches play an increasingly prominent role in the social and political events of the Korean peninsula. Sebastian C. H. Kim and Kirsteen Kim's comprehensive and timely history of different Christian denominations in Korea includes surveys of the Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant traditions as well as new church movements. They examine the Korean Christian diaspora and missionary movements from South Korea and also give cutting-edge insights into North Korea.
This book, the first recent one-volume history and analysis of Korean Christianity in English, highlights the challenges faced by the Christian churches in view of Korea's distinctive and multireligious cultural heritage, South Korea's rapid rise in global economic power and the precarious state of North Korea, which threatens global peace. This History will be an important resource for all students of world Christianity, Korean studies and mission studies.
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This is an up-to-date, comprehensive history of all Christian denominations in the Korean peninsula set within a global religious and geopolitical context. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
About the Author
Sebastian C. H. Kim holds the Chair in Theology and Public Life in the Faculty of Education and Theology at York St John University. He is the author of In Search of Identity: Debates on Religious Conversion in India (2003) and Theology in the Public Sphere (2011), and the editor of a number of books, including Christian Theology in Asia (Cambridge, 2008).
Kirsteen Kim is Professor of Theology and World Christianity at Leeds Trinity University. She is the author of The Holy Spirit in the World (2007) and Joining in with the Spirit (2012) and the coauthor, with Sebastian C. H. Kim, of Christianity as a World Religion (2008). She is also the coeditor of several books, including Edinburgh 2010: Witnessing to Christ Today (2010). --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
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ASIN : B00O0RKCXO
Publisher : Cambridge University Press (November 24, 2014)
Publication date : November 24, 2014
Print length : 375 pages
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Josiah Cha
5.0 out of 5 stars Only the bestReviewed in the United States on December 11, 2014
Just in luck! Having returned from my expedition to the DPRK, it was fascinating to read about the rich heritage of the church and make connections with what I saw there. This has been the most helpful academic book on the history of the Korean Church. I could not put this book down.
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1.0 out of 5 stars This book should be avoidedReviewed in the United States on September 1, 2021
It's a shame that Cambridge decided to publish this book. The authors obviously are not qualified to write a book of this scale. As other reviewers have already wrote in various venues, this book contains too many factual errors--a full errata will make another book. The authors are not established Korea specialists and apparently have done little original research. They had to write the book depending almost exclusively on a limited number of secondary sources which they unfortunately did not fully understand. Worse, they could not tell reliable sources from unreliable ones. I do not know the politics behind Cambridge's decision, but I am sure they are deeply regretting it.
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Korean Studies
1.0 out of 5 stars and some parts of the Bibliography is in a poor shape with wrong names of the institutionsReviewed in the United States on May 11, 2015
The press needs to recall this book because it has too many errors. Almost every page has historically incorrect facts or incorrect understanding of the primary and secondary texts. In many times the cited secondary sources do not tell the contents. The authors did not check the primary sources or recent articles when they use the secondary sources written more than 40 years ago. Even a few picture captions have wrong identifications, and some parts of the Bibliography is in a poor shape with wrong names of the institutions. In short, this book was written in a hurry and then no experts had reviewed the manuscript in detail before its publication.
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Josiah Cha
5.0 out of 5 stars Only the bestReviewed in the United States on December 11, 2014
Just in luck! Having returned from my expedition to the DPRK, it was fascinating to read about the rich heritage of the church and make connections with what I saw there. This has been the most helpful academic book on the history of the Korean Church. I could not put this book down.
3 people found this helpful
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allrblessed
1.0 out of 5 stars This book should be avoidedReviewed in the United States on September 1, 2021
It's a shame that Cambridge decided to publish this book. The authors obviously are not qualified to write a book of this scale. As other reviewers have already wrote in various venues, this book contains too many factual errors--a full errata will make another book. The authors are not established Korea specialists and apparently have done little original research. They had to write the book depending almost exclusively on a limited number of secondary sources which they unfortunately did not fully understand. Worse, they could not tell reliable sources from unreliable ones. I do not know the politics behind Cambridge's decision, but I am sure they are deeply regretting it.
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Korean Studies
1.0 out of 5 stars and some parts of the Bibliography is in a poor shape with wrong names of the institutionsReviewed in the United States on May 11, 2015
The press needs to recall this book because it has too many errors. Almost every page has historically incorrect facts or incorrect understanding of the primary and secondary texts. In many times the cited secondary sources do not tell the contents. The authors did not check the primary sources or recent articles when they use the secondary sources written more than 40 years ago. Even a few picture captions have wrong identifications, and some parts of the Bibliography is in a poor shape with wrong names of the institutions. In short, this book was written in a hurry and then no experts had reviewed the manuscript in detail before its publication.
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