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Article: Syncretism: the Religious Context of Christian Beginnings in Korea.(Book Review)
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- Church History
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- December 1, 2002
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By David Chung. Edited by Kang-nam Oh. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. xiv + 263 pp. $19.95 paper.
Presented as a doctoral dissertation in the Department of Religion at Yale University in 1959 and recommended by its director, H. Richard Niebuhr, for immediate publication, this book would not have seen the light of day had it not been discovered forty-two years later by its editor, Kang-nam Oh, a professor at University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The author, David Chung (b.1917), was prevented from following through with Niebuhr's suggestion by the extensive administrative responsibilities he assumed at Seoul National University and Konkuk ...