少太山의 後天開闢思想 = The Study on So-Tae-San's Thought of the Future Opening

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

So-Tae-San was the founder of Won-Buddhism. He acted as a religionist from 1916 to 1943. When we take view of the flows of Confucianism and our(Korea) national religions before and after the period as he acted, So-Tae-San tried to understand the history of Korean thoughts correctly and solve the problems from the phases of the times.
So-Tae-San's Thought of the Future Opening was the completion of one trend about ideas which was occurred among thinkers of national religion between the early 20th century.
His Thought of the Future Opening represented more reasonable and more concretely and more easily to put a theory in practice than any other theories that many thinkers had insisted by that time.
His Thought of the Future Opening was a situational trend from the political and social problems of the age.
The ideological object of the Thought of the Future Opening is the construction of the Paradise on the Earth. And the basic thoughts of the paradise and pacifism based on gratitude, the equality of all human beings without individual distinction and harmony between spiritual civilization and material civilization. The fundamental principle of his pacifism based on gratitude is 'grace'.
And The idea of all human beings' equality without individual distinction is founded at the thought of Four essential's best among his religious doctrines. The harmonious development between spiritual civilization plays on important role to discribe the practical appearance of the paradise on the earth.
The characteristic of So-Tae-San's Thought of the Future Opening is at the beginning of new world in spirit. That is innovation in spirit.
The world of the Future Opening is accomplished not by itself but by human efforts.
In So-Tae-San's principles about his new Spiritual Opening, the subject is the spirit, which the material belongs to. And the principle is that our spirits can control the materials better, and we must correct the order of the spirit and the material that is reversed now.
So as a practical way to achieve the object, So-Tae-San emphasized the trainings of both true faith to religion and daily moral practice.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ.序言
• Ⅱ.少太山 活動 前後의 思想推移와 少太山
• Ⅲ.前後開闢思想이 나오게 된 政治ㆍ社會的 背景과 開闢思想의 理念
• Ⅳ.後天開闢思想의 展開와 特徵
• Ⅴ.結語