Author Archives
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Book Proposal Submissions for “Asian American Christianity Series”
Asian American Christianity in Diaspora This new book series is for Palgrave Macmillan Series Editors Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Georgetown University, USA Joseph Cheah, University of Saint Joseph, USA Please take a quick look at the link below should you have… Read More ›
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New Direction for Theology of Worship Space
Allow me to begin with a story: “There was a Korean ajusshi1 who wanted to grow in his Christian faith. He remembered a Bible passage that spoke of Jesus going up a mountainside early in the morning to pray. Since… Read More ›
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Theological Reflections on “Gangnam Style”
Wikipedia reported that on December 21, 2012, “Gangnam Style” became the first YouTube video to reach one billion views. 1 As of May 31, 2014, the music video has been viewed over two billion times on YouTube, and it is… Read More ›
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Sermon: “The Story of a Scar”
The Story of a Scar John 20: 24-29 Sermon delivered by Minister Shirley Lin on 25th February, 2007 I have many scars, one of which is located on my left eyebrow. It’s pretty small, so you might miss it, but… Read More ›
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(Part I) Lost in Translation: Silent Exodus and the Korean-American Church
Globalization is striking America back. Roughly defined as socio-cultural-economic interrelatedness of the world and its occupants, globalization has existed since the beginning of humanity. However, the rate, breadth and intensity of the current process of globalization has never been seen… Read More ›
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Out of Silence: Emerging Themes in Asian American Churches
The issue of cultural marginalization and forced retreat is one of the key focal points in Fumitaka Matsuoka’s Out of Silence: Emerging Themes in Asian American Churches. In that double cultural jeopardy, he points out, the Asian American church has… Read More ›
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Development of Protestantism in South Korea: Positive and Negative Elements
Protestantism was transplanted to Korea by American and other Western missionaries in the 1880s, about one hundred years after Catholicism had spontaneously started in Korea. However, due to Japanese colonial rule and conflicts between Protestant religious doctrines and Confucian ancestor… Read More ›
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Korean Preaching, Han, and Narrative (American University Studies. Series VII. Theology and Religion)
In Korean Preaching, Han, and Narrative, the main point of Sangyil Park makes is that “Korean narrative preaching demands such an artistic, transformative, imagination to bring a healing and transforming effect to the han-ridden minjung in Korean culture (70).” In… Read More ›
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Ferguson and Minjung Theology: Intersectionality, Solidarity, and Protest
Soon afterwards he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him. As he approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother’s… Read More ›
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The Christological and Eschatological Significance of Jesus’ Second Sign-Miracle in the Fourth Gospel: Healing of the Official’s Son in 4:43-54
INTRODUCTION The first two miracles in the Gospel of John form a literary inclusio around the beginning chapters of the Gospel, commonly known as the “Cana Cycle” (2:1–4:54),1 because of their common geographical and thematic settings. Geographically, both miracles take… Read More ›
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