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The purpose of this article is to explore the dialectic, meaningful connection between the second-generation Korean-American college student experience and teachings in Bible study, which from the perspective of Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) are both helpful and unhelpful in building and strengthening their identity. By examining two members of the college group of U Church and their interpretive activities of meaning provided by the Bible as well as by their culture through Ricoeur's hermeneutical notion of the “text as the projected world,” this paper seeks to investigate the making and re-making of the meaning of being Korean-American Christians. In this interpretive process, Ricoeur provides a useful tool by which texts, biblical texts included, present to the readers a possible way of being-in-the-world: a new way of living in the world. That is, he shows an example of how in the Bible a possible world is opened and a mode-of-being in the world (faith) is nurtured and deepened. This article presents how the two biblical passages the two interviewees (Samuel and Jennifer) chose come to project a meaningful world for them by respecting both sides of their identity - Korean and American - but at the same time, their ultimate identities are as disciples and as part of the body of Jesus Christ as Korean-American Christians. In discovering and uncovering a way to link their faith/life experiences with the Bible, this paper also suggest five key educational and practical dimensions the U Church college group pastor should pursue: (1) guidance for being an interpretive community, (2) a link between life story and the Bible Story, (3) discovery and intensification of identity, (4) contextual interpretive process, and (5) proper curriculum and teaching approach. The findings from these interviews open the way to understanding the identity of the second-generation Korean-American college group in general, to exploring various needs and issues of Christian college students, and to developing Christian education for the second-generation college-aged people and further later-generations.

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Abstract
 Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION
 Ⅱ. DESCRIBING THE PRACTICE: THE BIBLE STUDY OF THE COLLEGE GROUP
 Ⅲ. INTERPRETING THE PRACTICE IN LIGHT OF PAUL RICOEUR’S HERMENEUTICAL THEORY
  1. Crucial Features of Ricoeur’s Thought on “the Text as the Projected World”
  2. The Two Seekers and Their Faith/Life Stories and Identities from Paul Ricoeur’s Perspective
 Ⅳ. CONSTRUCTIVE SUGGESTIONS FOR THEPRACTICE OF THE COLLEGE GROUP
 V. CONCLUSION
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저자

• Jin Kyung Park [ Lecturer, Methodist Theological University ]

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• 간행물명

  기독교교육논총

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  1229-781X

• 수록기간

  1996~2026

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  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 235 DDC 240