Ahn Byung-Mu
South korean theologian
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- PhD Theology Yonsei University
- Masters Theology Yonsei University
- Bachelors Theology Yonsei University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ahn Byung-Mu was a Korean New Testament scholar and founding father of minjung theology. Biography Ahn was born in South Pyongan Province as the first son of a traditional doctor. When he was one year old, his family fled Japanese-colonized Korea to Manchuria. He was introduced to Christianity in primary school and entered a secondary school run by the Canadian Presbyterian mission. He went to Japan in 1941 to study sociology and philosophy at Taisho University and Waseda University. Although this was interrupted, he continued his studies in sociology with a minor in religion at Seoul National University . He worked as a lecturer at Chungang Seminary, teaching sociology and ancient Greek, where he gained an interest in the works of Rudolf Bultmann. He then pursued a PhD at Heidelberg University under the supervision Günther Bornkamm, a student of Bultmann, completing a dissertation on "Das Verständnis der Liebe bei K'ung-tse und bei Jesus" .
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