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• Candler Foundry Courses on Asian and Asian American Study of Christianity

  By AATF Admin on March 7, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Candler School of Theology’s Foundry presents a terrific course on Asian and Asian American Study of Christianity. For more information, visit: The Candler Foundry

• Vol. 10 No. 1-2

  By AATF Admin on December 26, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Vol. 10 No. 1-2 Articles  #deltaδmovement: Hong Kong’s Lay Theologies in the Making (Digitally) Ann Gillian Chu Hybridity: Retrieving the Real-life Messiness Erased by a Reified Concept Courtney Goto From Multiculturality to Interculturality: The Aim of Theological Education in the… Read More ›

• Lived Missiology: The Legacy of Ernest and Phebe Ward

  By AATF Admin on December 26, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Winner of Bishop Leslie R. Marston Book Prize of 2022, Lived Missiology by Shivraj K. Mahendra is a significant work that sheds light on the legacy of two great Free Methodist missionaries, Ernest Ward and Phebe Ward, their lives, contributions,… Read More ›

• Invisible: Theology and the Experience of Asian American Women

  By AATF Admin on December 26, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion, has made another significant contribution to the field of constructive theology with her book Invisible: Theology and the Experience of Asian American Women. All Kim’s works manifest her calling… Read More ›

• AATF Partners with AANATE (Association of Asian/North American Theological Educators)

  By AATF Admin on December 14, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

• #deltaδmovement: Hong Kong’s Lay Theologies in the Making (Digitally)

  By AATF Admin on December 14, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Introduction When I wake up each morning, the first thing I do is scroll through social media feeds. Living in Hong Kong (GMT +8), I generally sleep during late afternoon in Europe (GMT +0/+1) and throughout the day in North… Read More ›

• Hybridity: Retrieving the Real-life Messiness Erased by a Reified Concept

  By AATF Admin on December 14, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Within historic Japanese American churches, few members would speak in theoretical terms about how they belong to multiple cultures and traditions. However, there is not a single person who does not know from the inside the discomfiting, challenging, creative nature… Read More ›

• From Multiculturality to Interculturality: The Aim of Theological Education in the Global Context

  By AATF Admin on December 13, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  “What exactly is interculturality?” It is important to acknowledge at the outset that this recently-coined terminology is still very unclear for many people. First and foremost, interculturality is not merely “internationality” or “multiculturality” whereby a community, which is comprised of… Read More ›

• ‘Nobody’ as an Official Identity: Biblical Gentilics, the life of ‘FNU,’ and Asian America

  By AATF Admin on December 11, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  The Politics of Labeling In 1930, the United States Census Bureau created a category of “Mexican” for the first time as a separate racial label on the census form. The creation of the new race category coincided with the emergence… Read More ›

• The Isaian Servant vis-à-vis a Caged-But-Singing Bird (Stan Swamy): An Inter(con)textual Attempt at Everyday Ethics

  By AATF Admin on December 10, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  1. Introduction Fr. Stan, Rest not in Peace! The intended humor apart, the above epitaph which featured in the JES-WIT section of JIVAN journal,[1] succinctly summarizes the life and the legacy of a Jesuit social activist, Fr. Stanislaus Swamy (henceforth,… Read More ›