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• vol. 1 no. 2

  By AATF Admin on April 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Vol. 1 No. 2 Articles & Book Reviews Bible Article: “Biblical Moral Dilemmas: The Case of Canaanites” Jimyung Kim, PDF Book Review on What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics?, Hyun Ho Park, PDF History Article: “Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Civilizing… Read More ›

• vol. 1 no. 1

  By AATF Admin on April 27, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Vol. 1 No. 1 Articles & Book Reviews Bible Article: “Subversive Implications of 2 Kings 7:3-10 with Focus on the Lepers” Yoon Kyung Kim, PDF Book Review on Ways of Being, Ways of Reading: Asian American Biblical Interpretation, Hyun Ho… Read More ›

• Using the Bible in Practical Theology

  By AATF Admin on February 5, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Understanding Masculinity in Tevye the Dairyman

  By AATF Admin on February 5, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• (Article Review) Sejong Chun “Exorcism or Healing? A Korean Preacher’s Reading of Mark 5:1-20”

  By AATF Admin on February 4, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• (Part II): Glocality and Covenant: Korean American Interchurch Unity

  By AATF Admin on February 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• The Law and Sin: A Reading of Paul with Lacan and Levinas

  By AATF Admin on February 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Refusing to be Comforted

  By AATF Admin on February 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• A New History of Christianity in China

  By AATF Admin on February 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Homiletical Insights from Paul Tillich and Wonhyo: Focusing on Their Understanding of God and Ultimate Reality: Part I

  By AATF Admin on February 1, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›