SUMMARY

This study examines how the Korean Presbyterian Church's foundational theology has become Calvinistic and Biblicist, and how its theologians have responded to its Calvinistic Biblicism. First, it is the Biblicist Nevius (Mission) Methods of the American missionaries to Korea that determined the church's theological orientation to be Biblicist. The Methods emphasizing simplistic and Biblicist Bible studies brought about a spectacular church growth, through which Biblicism was taken for granted. Second, the church's Biblicism was even doctrinally and publicly sanctioned by its constitutional Calvinistic creed of 1907. Third, it was Dr. W. D. Reynolds, a leading American Presbyterian missionary and theologian, who led the church in becoming even more Biblicist and fundamentalist. Fourth, Korean theologians' responses to Korean Biblicist Calvinism have been rather ambivalent; while their conservative wing has been quite obsessed with conservative, Biblicist Calvinism their progressive wing has been quite aloof from Calvinism in general.