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Prof. Kwangshik Kim’s “ Theology of Blessing" understands the salvation work of Jesus Christ on the earth as an expulsion of the demon: healing the sick in the mirac1e of “ two fishes and five breads." He interprets the main work of shamanism as an expulsion of the ghost by healing the sick and blessing the good. He combines the blessing ideas of Confucianism, Buddhism and Shamanism with the salvation doctrine of Christianity, typologically from the perspective of religion phenomenology. However, such an interpretation comes from the understanding that the salvation history of God is just a forgiveness of the human beings' desire to be emancipated from the universal sin. But, this is quasi a try to messianic justify the original and universal sin of the mankind. The theological and traditional theme of Christianity is the idea “ Immanuel" which is implied in the Theology of “ Creation of God," “ Reconciliation with the sinners in Christ," and “ Salvation History." In other word, the true benediction in Christianity is that Jesus came to set the men free from the suffering of the demon, hunger and power of the earthly world, and that he will live with such men, forever, in the kingdom of God. However, the “Theology of Blessing" by Prof. Kwangshik Kim has overseen the covenant theology, which is a very important theological theme in the Old and New Testament. Certainly, God has made his promise to the mankind by saying, “1 will be your God, and you shall be my people" (Jer. 31 :31).