“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 ›
(T) Book Review
Korean Women, Self-Esteem, and Practical Theology: Transformative Care
Jaeyeong Lucy Chung’s book provides a criticism of Korean women’s development of “low self-esteem” and “false-self identity,” isolated from their parents, husbands, and parents in law, and suggests a practical methodology of pastoral care for Korean women for overcoming this… Read More ›
Gods, Heroes, and Ancestors: An Interreligious Encounter in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam
An Tran has written a valuable book which gives us insight into the religious beliefs and practices in eighteenth-century Vietnam, and of Christian missionary responses to and understandings of those beliefs and practices. The core of his book is a… Read More ›
Planetary Solidarity: Global Women’s Voices on Christian Doctrine and Climate Justice
The term, Climate Justice, comes from the premise that climate change, or global warming in narrow sense, has real impact on the entire planet. In terms of matter of climate justice and injustice, the problematic structure of reality is that,… Read More ›
Grassroots Asian Theology: Thinking the Faith from the Ground up
Simon Chan, professor of systematic theology at Trinity College in Singapore, challenges the way in which Asian theology has been understood and reified by Western theologians. Chan poses the question of why Asian theology largely consists of elitist theological accounts… Read More ›
Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women’s Theology
Feminist theologians in Asia, Africa, and Latin America gathered together and produced this edited volume of theologies from the perspectives of indigenous women in Third World. In this book, the indigenous women are not merely defined by geographical locations, but… Read More ›
Ethics: A Liberative Approach
Leading religious scholars, who belong to and work with/for marginalized communities, collaborated together on producing an edited volume, Ethics: A Liberative Approach. Miguel A. De La Torre, the editor of this book, states the purpose of this book: exposing readers… Read More ›
Embracing the Other
Grace Ji-Sun Kim’s new book, Embracing the Other, prophetically suggests a theological reconstruction of the doctrine of God—what she calls “Sprit God”—from a perspective of Asian American feminist theologian. Her methodology for this theological reconstruction stands in continuity of (Western)… Read More ›
Asian American Christian Ethics: Voices, Methods, Issues
Asian Americans have a unique voice to contribute to the academy and yet, in the field of Christian ethics, there has not been Asian American voices or scholarship taking place specifically dealing with Asian American experiences. For the first time,… Read More ›
Contemplations from the Heart: Spiritual Reflections on Family, Community, and the Divine
We live in a fast-paced world of complex challenges. While today, we are more technologically connected than ever before, paradoxically with this also come forms of disconnection—from others, ourselves, the earth, and God. Amidst seemingly endless choices and busy lives,… Read More ›