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• 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 ›

• The Nationalist Coup, Prophetic Church, and Engaged Buddhists

  By AATF Admin on December 23, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Introduction  To most people in the West, Asian Buddhism means a religion of peace and compassion. Their perception of Asian Buddhism is the Dalai Lama’s version of peaceful Buddhism. Yet the reality of Asian Buddhism is often something very different…. Read More ›

• Vol. 9 No. 2

  By AATF Admin on December 22, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Vol. 9 No. 2 Articles & Book Reviews Bible Book Review: An Asian Introduction to the New Testament Hyun Ho Park History Book Review: Christianity Remade: The Rise of Indian-Initiated Churches Shivraj K. Mahendra Theology & Ethics Article: “The Nationalist Coup,… Read More ›