The introduction says that this book is for pastors and lay people, but how many lay people are college-educated with western philosophical backgrounds? The academic background of the author is obvious from the beginning. For an academic familiar with discussions… Read More ›
I. Introduction 1. Literary Character Tevye and its Complexity “Tevye is no woman.” Tevye, the narrator and protagonist of Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye the Dairyman, repetitively emphasizes his maleness throughout his monologue. The intention of this repetitive emphasis, however, seems… Read More ›
Note: Chun’s article appears in Mark: Texts @ Contexts edited by Nicole Duran, Teresa Okure, and Daniel Patte, pp. 15-34. Summary: Sejong Chun’s reading of Mark 5:1-20, the story of the Gerasene demonic, is based on his intercontextual dialogue acknowledging… Read More ›
This essay is the second of the three part series that attempts to demonstrate how the global dialectic of convergence and divergence is playing out in the Korean American church, particularly in regards to its communal vision.1 The previous essay… Read More ›
1 It has been customary to exclude God in explaining and understanding natural, social, and human phenomena. Psychoanalysis is exemplary. It reduces God to a mere psychological product. This article criticizes psychoanalysis with Levinas’ philosophy and Paul’s theology. It concentrates… Read More ›
A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, for they are no more. —Matthew 2:18 “I want to know what happened to my baby! I want to know… Read More ›
Students of Chinese Christianity have long hoped for and desperately needed a book like Daniel Bays’s magisterial yet concise history of Christianity in China. Such a book has only become possible in the last few years with the rising tide… Read More ›
Things Unbearable1 by Kyong Ri Park(1926-2008) Since I moved into the Dankoodong village I was pricked by a thorned larva on the arm, To be swollen red and hot … My pain did not stop there; Locust-trees, thorn trees,… Read More ›
Summary Dr. Ung Joe Lee’s dissertation, The New Homiletic: The Strategies for the Listener-Oriented Communication of the Gospel in the Postmodern Korean Context, is an attempt to find the reason why the traditional Korean preaching does not appeal to the… Read More ›
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