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Filial Piety
Filial piety is the honoring and serving of one's parents. Protestants understand it as a religious duty grounded in the fifth of the Ten Commandments: "Honour thy father and thy mother."
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- Honoring ParentsChristian Life
Honoring parents is the biblical teaching that children are to respect and serve their parents. It is set forth in one of the Ten Commandments. In Korean churches, it is practiced through observances such as Parents' Sunday and memorial services.
- Ancestral Rites and Memorial ServicesControversies
The question of whether ancestral rites should be forbidden as idolatry or regarded as a cultural expression of filial piety. Korean Protestant churches have prohibited ancestral rites and have instead held memorial services.
- The Korean Church and ConfucianismHistory
The Korean church and Confucianism refers to the history of how Christianity, after entering the Neo-Confucian society of Joseon, clashed with and adapted to Confucian ancestral rites and the ethic of filial piety. Central to this history are the Catholic prohibition of ancestral rites and the persecutions that followed, as well as the Protestant prohibition of ancestral rites and the emergence of the memorial service.
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