About the Asian Theological Summer Institute May 28-31, 2019 Held on United Lutheran Seminary’s Philadelphia campus, the Asian Theological Summer Institute (ATSI) seeks to identify and encourage Asians/Asian Americans who are focused on theological education at the PhD and ThD… Read More ›
Prabhu Guptara’u book, Make the Best of Your Life: Letters to Bahujan Youth, is in epistolary form responding to questions, which makes his work attractive and the topics lucid.[1] Born and educated in India, Guptara is a prominent Indian expert… Read More ›
Introduction Miracles of the Namiya General Store is an extraordinary novel written by the well-known Japanese mystery novel writer Keigo Higashino in 2012.[1] Different versions of the film and drama were adapted from the novel. My first contact with the story was… Read More ›
Vol. 5 No. 2 Articles & Book Reviews Bible Article: “Honor and Shame in Sirach,” Baek Hee Kim Book Review on Reading Jesus’ Parables with Dao De Jing, Hyun Ho Park History Article : “Dichotomy Between Faith and Scholarship: A Reflection from Pakistan,” Keneth… Read More ›
Honor and shame as a pair of cultural lens were first introduced to America as something non-American through the research of the anthropologist Ruth Benedict in her book The Chrysanthmum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture, published in 1946,… Read More ›
Text: : 2 Corinthian 2:5-17 Background: Preached in Immanuel Presbyterian Church of Fremont. Mostly English speaking second generation Asian Americans youth and young adults. Introduction For the past few years, my family watched Fremont Fourth of July parade. This year… Read More ›
Lalsangkima Pachuau, J.W. Beeson Professor of Christian Mission and Dean of Advanced Research Program at Asbury Theological Seminary, in his exciting book “World Christianity: A Historical and Theological Introduction,” examines the development and growth of world Christianity by tracing… Read More ›
Introduction Johannine theology of mission is not as known as the Pauline approach to mission. Theologians such as Dean Gilliland, Rollin Grams, and Andreas Köstenberger have written on theologies of mission from various perspectives of the Pauline Epistles,[1] Matthean understanding,[2]… Read More ›
Enter an introductory preaching classroom today at a mainline seminary and you will discover a dizzying diversity of differences along race, ethnicity, gender, class, ability, denomination, geography, and language. It is no surprise that some of the classic texts in… Read More ›
Introduction What is the relationship between the political and the theological? To whom do you grant your hope of salvation? Is it possible to see God and the state as sovereign? An understanding of theological sovereignty can grant a vision… Read More ›
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