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Article: Christ and Caesar in Modern Korea: A History of Christianity and Politics.(Review)
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- Korean Studies
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- January 1, 1999
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Christ and Caesar in Modern Korea: A History of Christianity and Politics, by Wi Jo Kang. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 214 pp., $19.95 paper.
Invoking Jesus' enigmatic response to the Pharisees, Wi Jo Kang, a professor at Wartburg Theological Seminary, promises an "interpretive history of the development of Christianity in relation to the political development of modern Korea" (p. vii). The author delivers a thematic narrative, yoking missionary efforts in the late Choson kingdom to "Christian presidents" in the late twentieth century. Complete with experiential references, four appendices, and a general bibliography, the book gives the ...