This thesis, employing a feminist viewpoint, intends to develop a method of pastoral spiritual care for Korean Christian women to assist them in moving from self-sacrifice to self-assertion in the Korean context. Itprovides a process by which women may be empowered and may take back their voices. God gives all people the ability to discern God's will in their lives. Nevertheless, Korean Christian women's ability to discern is challenged by their church context and Korean culture. One of the author's main concerns is to study how the structural contradictions in the Korean church affect the process of acculturation in the women. The author also explores how women can shift toward the process of inculturation within the Korean culture. The thesis asks how Korean churches might empower Korean Christian women and proposes a method of pastoral spiritual care appropriate for their context. The researcher examined the actual experience of Korean Christian women, as well as Korean cultural resources, and Christian religious tradition to explore the process of women's self-assertion as it is applicable and appropriate to relevant aspects of Korean culture and Christian spiritual direction. This study presents a model for spiritual direction, both group and individual, through a feminist perspective. The model of Korean Christian women's self-assertion through a process that develops self-awareness, and self-direction, and is empowering. This model of spiritual direction for Korean Christian women includes a variety ofpractices, drawn from religious wisdom, including: daily prayer retreat, storytelling (han-pu-ri), Bible study with active imagination, lectio divina, journaling, meditation, and dream interpretation.
