The March 1st Movement and Presbyterian‐Church. Methodist‐Church and Holiness‐Church ―The Principle of ‘separation of church and state’ of foreign missionary in Korea revealed through the March 1st Movement

The chapter compares the response of the Catholic Church in the South to desegregation with that of the region’s larger white denominations: the Southern Baptist Convention, the Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church in the United States, the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. It also makes comparisons with Catholics outside the South and with southern Jews, a minority, like Catholics, subject to suspicion and even hostility from the Protestant majority, and with the Northern (later American) Baptist Convention and the Disciples of Christ, both of which had a substantial African American membership. The comparison suggests that white lay sensibilities, more than polity or theology, influenced the implementation of desegregation in the South by the major white religious bodies. Like the major white Protestant denominations, Catholic prelates and clergy took a more progressive approach to desegregation in the peripheral than the Deep South.

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A Study on the First Korean Missionary: Focused on the Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church in Korea

Theology of Mission ◽

10.14493/ksoms.2019.3.98 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 55 ◽

pp. 98-127

Author(s):

Chil-Sung Kim ◽

Keyword(s):

Methodist Church ◽

Presbyterian Church ◽

Presbyterian Church In Korea

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A state church? A consideration of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa in the light of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ‘Theological position paper on state and church’

STJ | Stellenbosch Theological Journal ◽

10.17570/stj.2016.v2n1.a04 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 61 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dion Forster

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

Southern Africa ◽

Church And State ◽

Position Paper ◽

African National Congress ◽

Methodist Church ◽

Thirtieth Anniversary ◽

African Context ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Church

This article considers whether South Africa’s largest mainline Christian denomination, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, is in danger of embodying or propagating a contemporary form of ‘state theology’. The notion of state theology in the South African context gained prominence through the publication of the ‘Kairos Document’ (1985) – which celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2015. State theology is deemed inappropriate and harmful to the identity and work of both the Christian church and the nation state. This article presents its consideration of whether the Methodist Church of Southern Africa is in danger of propagating ‘state theology’ in dialogue with Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s important document, <i>Theological Position Paper on State and Church</i>. The article offers some insights into the complex relationship between the state and the church in South Africa in the apartheid and democratic eras. It further problematizes the relationship between the Methodist Church of Southern Africa and the governing African National Congress by citing some concerning examples of complicit behaviour from recent history. The MCSA’s polity and doctrine on church and state relationships are also considered before some critique and warning is offered in the light of Bonhoeffer’s <i>Theological Position Paper on State and Church</i>.

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