Innaecheon, man is heaven, is Cheondoism's central teaching, condensed by the movement's third leader Son Byong-hui from the founder Choe Je-u's teaching that the Lord of Heaven is borne within every person. Its practical form was drawn out earlier by the second leader Choe Si-hyeong, who taught that a child being struck is heaven being struck, and it led the movement to treat the caste distinctions of the late Joseon order as false. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Historical OriginSourced to the subject's own accountThe movement had been renamed Cheondoism from its earlier name Donghak in 1905, and Innaecheon's teaching that heaven is borne within every person gave the reorganized faith the standing to help drive the March First Movement of 1919 against Japanese colonial rule: Son Byong-hui, the leader who had condensed the doctrine into its familiar phrase, was one of the thirty three national representatives who signed Korea's Declaration of Independence that year. 1 Status
Standing as a Comparative CategorySourced to the subject's own accountA standard analytic category in the study of religion 1 Doctrinal category (class)Sourced to the subject's own account Connections
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This source names Joseon directly: "the caste distinctions of the late Joseon order as false."
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This source names Son Byong-hui directly: "by the movement's third leader Son Byong-hui from the founder Choe Je-u's teaching that the Lord of Heaven is borne within every person."
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