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The Catholic movement in Korea was birthed among Confucian scholars who sought to supplement Confucian philosophy with Catholic teaching. Hence, the earliest didactic writings of Korean Catholics were more syncretistic in content, integrating Catholic and Confucian themes. But as the movement became increasingly circumscribed by Church teachings and regulations, the focus in its didactic literature shifted to exclusively Catholic and other-worldly themes. Two main points of divergence from Korean tradition may be traced in these early texts: loyalty extended to a transcendent object and belief in the soul’s immortality. These transcendent motifs become more pronounced in the later texts. This divergence, in turn, signifies a shift to a subjectivity of the spiritual and intellectual self as separate from the world.

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ABSTRACT
 INTRODUCTION
 FROM SYNCRETISM TO ALIENATION IN THE FIRST GENERATION OF THE CATHOLIC MOVEMENT
 INTEGRATED CATHOLIC AND CONFUCIAN THEMES IN THE EARLIEST DIDACTIC TEXTS
 EXCLUSIVELY CATHOLIC AND OTHER-WORDLY THEMES IN LATER DIDACTIC TEXTS
 ALLEGIANCE AND INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY SHIFTED TO THE TRANSCENDENT REALM
 SUBJECTIVE SEPARATION FROM THE WORLD
 CONCLUSION
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• DEBERNIERE JANET TORREY [ University of Utah, USA ]

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