Author Archives

• Moon Ik-Hwan’s Sacramental Imagination for Political Transformation in His Sermon

  By AATF Admin on May 15, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  As William T. Cavanaugh says “politics is a practice of imagination,”[1] imagination is political because it has the potential to critique reality and evoke the hope for political transformation. While theologians have used biblical stories as the resource for the… Read More ›

• Vol. 8 No. 1

  By AATF Admin on May 14, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Vol. 8 No. 1 Articles & Book Reviews Bible Article 1: “The Eve and Mary Parallel: Misogyny in 1 Timothy 2:11-15” Hye Hyun Han Article 2: “Lament as Resistance and Rage: An Asian Woman Immigrant’s Reading of Psalm 137 in… Read More ›

• Pentecostalism and Politics of Conversion in India

  By AATF Admin on May 14, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In Pentecostalism and Politics of Conversion in India, Sarbeswar Sahoo, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT), presents the complexity of understanding conversion in India. From the context of the tribal communities of Rajasthan, Sahoo… Read More ›

• Unsettling Truth: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery

  By AATF Admin on May 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Unsettling Truth is a book of lamentations that mourns the collective and structured evil and sin inflicted on the Aboriginal communities who lived on this continent before European settlement, and it reveals the brokenness of settlers’ ideas of colonization from… Read More ›

• The Crisis of Evangelicalism and Public Theology

  By AATF Admin on May 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Introduction As a theologian and a pastor, I cannot help but feel frustrated with the reality of today’s Christianity; it is no longer new to hear that more and more seminaries and churches are struggling with serious (financial) difficulties, as… Read More ›

• Exploring the Mission Theology of Donald Anderson McGavran: A Historical and Missiological Reflection

  By AATF Admin on January 14, 2021 • ( 0 )

• Becoming a Peacemaker

  By AATF Admin on December 10, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  As we see in this fresco by the Italian artist Fra Angelico (1395-1455), Christ and his disciples sit at the center of the composition, forming a circle of fellowship. Christ’s right-hand raises in a gesture of teaching, referring to the theme… Read More ›

• Vol. 7 No. 2

  By AATF Admin on December 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Vol. 7 No. 1 Articles & Book Reviews Bible Article: “‘Can’t Complain’ A Response to Spivak’s “Can’t the Subaltern Speak?” from a Post-colonial Pinoy/Filipinx (of the) American Diaspora Perspective” Carmelo Sorita Book Review: Betweener Talk: Decolonizing Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Praxis… Read More ›

• Stories of Minjung Theology: The Theological Journey of Ahn Byung-Mu in His Own Words

  By AATF Admin on December 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “Minjung theology is” what a renowned German theologian Jürgen Moltmann (1926-), a cordial friend of some Minjung theologians, including Ahn Byung-Mu (1922-1996) called “the first liberation theology to come from Asia, with critical questions put to the First World.” By now, Minjung theology… Read More ›

• Ima Ka Yaku? Brief Introduction of the Development of Taiwan’s Indigenous Theologies

  By AATF Admin on December 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

            Prologue On this Island, My dear ancestors, Have never set fences or walls. We believed the people who visited from afar were our guests. So, Dutch came, and took a piece of land. Spanish came,… Read More ›