ABSTRACT
This chapter refers to Yoon Suk-san's explanation of the deity and the Cosmos in the section below, on Jisang Cheonguk. One possible reason for this difference is that westerners in general make a clear distinction between the terms God and Heaven, whereas, as is evident from Haewol's and Uiam's writings and verified by Yoon Suk-san's explanation below, Donghak/Cheondo-gyo philosophy and theology which developed after Su-un's death does not. Yoon Suk-san explains the latter as follows: This God Hanulnim does not reside in a distant heaven far removed from human beings standing with their feet firmly planted on this earth. Su-un's legacy of respect and reverence for all individuals and for all creation had a lasting and formative effect on modern Korea and helped to shape egalitarian and democratic ideals which have served the southern half of the peninsula well into the latter part of the twentieth and early part of the twenty-first century.
