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123- THE HEALING OF HAN IN KOREAN PENTECOSTALISM Dongsoo Kim* Sungsan Hyo University, 614-6 Kansuk-dong, Namdong-ku, Incheon, South Korea * Dongsoo Kim (PhD, Cambridge University) is Assistant Professor of Theol- ogy at Sungsan Hyo University in Namdong-ku, Incheon, South Korea. Why has the church in Korea, especially the Pentecostal church, been growing so rapidly?’ What are the distinctive features that make its growth so special?’ As Harvey Cox points out, ’there are many ways to try to explain the eruption of Christianity and Pentecostalism in Korea’.3 For example, from the view-point of comparative religion, Kyoko Fuchigami claims that the immediate cause of the rapid growth of the Korean church was ’the healing activity of Korean Christian ministers’ influenced by Korean shamanism.’ 1. For the cultural aspects of Korean church growth, see Bong-Rin Ro, ’Non- Spiritual Factors in Church Growth’, and Harold S. Hong, ’Social, Political and Psychological Aspects of Church Growth’, both in Bong-Rin Ro and Marlin L. Nelson (eds.), Korean Church Growth Explosion: Centennial of the Protestant Church (1884-1984) (Seoul, Korea: Word of Life Press, 1983), pp. 159-70 and 171- 81 respectively. 2. From a perspective of church growth, Jae Bum Lee’s ’Pentecostal Type Distinctive and Korean
Journal of Pentecostal Theology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1999
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