The Country That Converted Itself to Catholicism

From Totus Catholica

In the 1780s, a group of Korean Confucian scholars got their hands on a single Catholic book written by Jesuit Matteo Ricci. No missionary had ever entered Korea. They read it, debated it against the most sophisticated philosophy in East Asia, and concluded Catholic teaching was true. They baptised one another, founded a church, and over the next 80 years, more than 10,000 of their countrymen were tortured and killed rather than deny what those scholars had discovered through reason alone. The Confucian concept of Cheon, the mandate of heaven, prefigured what the Church teaches as divine providence. The ancestral rites of Jesa, setting a table for the beloved dead, foreshadowed the mass. What Korean families were reaching for across that ancestral table, the Eucharist actually accomplishes. In 1984, Pope John Paul II canonised 103 Korean martyrs in Seoul, the first canonisation ever held outside Rome, declaring the Korean Church unique in all of Christianity for its lay origins. Truth does not need an army. CHAPTERS: 0:00 The Country That Converted Itself 1:00 The Question You Need to Sit With 2:11 John 1:9, Romans 1:19-20 and CCC 36-38 3:06 The Silhak Movement and Matteo Ricci 3:38 Cheon and the Mandate of Heaven 4:07 Justin Martyr and the Logos Spermatikos 4:38 Yi Seung-hun and the Lay Founding of the Korean Church 5:06 Jesa and the Mass: Communion With the Dead 6:01 They Converted Against Every Social Pressure 6:41 Grace Perfects Nature: Aquinas 7:05 Was It Still a European Import? 7:44 Pope John Paul II and the 103 Korean Martyrs 8:40 The Colonialism Objection Answered 🌍 Website: https://totuscatholica.org/ 📿 Rosary Guide: https://totuscatholica.org/rosary ✉️ Contact: https://totuscatholica.org/contact 🔍 Examination of Conscience: https://catholicexaminationofconscien... 📚 Free eBooks: https://buymeacoffee.com/totuscatholi... 👥 Become a Totus Insider: https://buymeacoffee.com/totuscatholi...