This volume is a collection of six essays that Dr. Kim published in various journals over the past several years. They represent the early period of Dr. Kim's theological journey into Christian faith as a Korean Christian or, more broadly, an East Asian Christian. These essays deal primarily with religio-cultural themes related to my existential situation. - from the Preface This book provides for Christian theology what has long been needed: a sustained and original analysis of the relationship between the Taoist and ...
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This volume is a collection of six essays that Dr. Kim published in various journals over the past several years. They represent the early period of Dr. Kim's theological journey into Christian faith as a Korean Christian or, more broadly, an East Asian Christian. These essays deal primarily with religio-cultural themes related to my existential situation. - from the Preface This book provides for Christian theology what has long been needed: a sustained and original analysis of the relationship between the Taoist and Christian traditions. An important study. David Tracy, Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor of Catholic Studies and Professor of Theology and the Philosophy of Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School Heup Young Kim is Professor of Systematic Theology at Kangnam University, Korea, and former Dean of the College of Humanities and Liberal Arts and the Graduate School of Theology. He received his BSE degree from Seoul National University, M.Div. and Th.M. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and Ph.D. from Graduate Theological Union. Awarded as the 2009 Alum of the Year by the Graduate Theological Union, he is a co-moderator of the Congress of Asian Theologians and a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion. Professor Kim has published numerous works in the areas of interfaith dialogue, theology of religions, Asian theology, and theology and science, including Wang Yang-ming and Karl Barth: A Confucian-Christian Dialogue (1996).
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