The Future of Christology:
Jesus Christ for a Global Age
by Dong-Kun Kim
Jun 28, 2019
The Future of Christology addresses the questions that Christology currently faces and/or will face in the future in 12 topics. The book consists of two parts. In the first part Kim deals with five topics related to traditional Christology, while in the second part he wrestles with seven topics related to issues of Christology.
The twenty-first century is a challenging time for Christianity. Many in our age are asking what Jesus Christ means in various dimensions of history, culture, nature, and even beyond the Earth. Changes in values, worldviews, and views of the universe are forming a new zeitgeist. Dong-Kun Kim argues that ways of understanding Christ should change accordingly, for a Christology that fails to communicate meaningfully with the times is void of vitality. Postmodernism, dehistoricization and life post-ideology, multiculturalism, multiple religions, and, above all, the rapid development of the natural sciences pose a serious challenge to traditional Christology.
Who is Christ in the age of an infinite cosmos? How do daily human life, social devotion, and praxis relate to salvation? How can we discuss salvation history in an era post-history? Where does Christ stand in the public sphere? Can the Chalcedonian definition of the two natures of Christ, “true God and true human being,” encompass nature and the cosmos; would a third nature of Christ be necessary? Will the cyborg, which may appear in the near future, be the object of Christ’s salvation? If scientific determinism becomes popular in the future, will the basis of faith in Christ lose ground? If intelligent life exists in the universe, what does Christ mean to such life? This book provides innovative answers to these questions in an academic context.
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(Author) Dong-Kun Kim: Dong-Kun Kim is a professor at Youngnam Theological University and Seminary, South Korea. He has published over 15 books and 50 academic papers, which have been published in English and Korean, and many of which have received awards in Korea.
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CHRIST AMONG THE DISCIPLINES
CONFERENCE NOTES
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by R.E. SlaterNovember 24, 2020Please note: I write these notes to myself. They are not intended to be exact transcriptions from the speakers themselves. What I have written are not their words but my own thoughts. - resPlease note: All panelists provided textual statements for comments to attendees. These are not allowed to be publically published as they are intended to form to the moment-in-time not replicable beyond the panel discussions themselves as very specific conversations to one another in the AAR setting
Panelist Bios:
Fred Sanders: Fred Sanders is a systematic theologian who studies and teaches across the entire range of classic Christian doctrine, but with a primary focus on the doctrine of the Trinity. Fred has taught in Torrey Honors College since 1999, and is an amateur historian of Biola's institutional history. He is co-founder of the annual Los Angeles Theology Conference, and maintains an active internet presence via Twitter and blog. He and his family are members of Grace Evangelical Free Church.
Natalie Marandiuc: Natalia Marandiuc’s work focuses on feminist constructive and systematic theology and draws from interdisciplinary sources in theology, humanities, social sciences, and neuroscience. She earned a Ph.D. in Religious Studies, with a specialization in systematic theology, from Yale University (2013). Her first book, The Goodness of Home: Human and Divine Love and the Making of the Self was published by Oxford University Press in 2018 and won the Aldersgate Prize. She is currently writing her second monograph, provisionally titled Love and Human Thriving: A Feminist Soteriology, and has received a Templeton award to support this work. She teaches at Perkins School of Theology, SMU, where she also serves as affiliate faculty in the Religious Studies graduate program. She co-chairs the Christian Systematic Theology Unit at the AAR, is a member of the steering committee of AAR’s Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture section, and participates on the board of Logia.
Sameer Yadav: Sameer Yadav (Th.D., Duke, S.TM., Yale) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Westmont College. Sameer is an analytic theologian whose research and publications have focused on the philosophy and theology of religious experience, apophatic and mystical theology, the nature of Christian scripture, the problem of divine hiddenness, and the significance of historical intersections of race and religion for theology. He is on the steering committee for the Philosophy of Religion group at the American Academy of Religion, the editorial board of the Journal of Analytic Theology, and serves on the diversity committee of the Society of Christian Philosophers. Sameer is the author of The Problem of Perception and the Experience of God (Fortress Press, 2015), as well as having published in various edited volumes and journals including Faith and Philosophy, Religious Studies, and The Journal of Religion. His current projects include a work of philosophical theology on race in a Christian doctrine of peoplehood and a book on narrative theology and doctrinal formation.
Jeorg Rieger: Joerg Rieger is Distinguished Professor of Theology and the Cal Turner Chancellor’s Chair of Wesleyan Studies. He is also the founding director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice. Previously he was the Wendland-Cook Endowed Professor of Constructive Theology at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. He received an M.Div. from the Theologische Hochschule Reutlingen, Germany, a Th.M. from Duke Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in religion and ethics from Duke University. For more than two decades he has worked to bring together theology and the struggles for justice and liberation that mark our age. His work addresses the relation of theology and public life, reflecting on the misuse of power in religion, politics, and economics. His main interest is in developments and movements that bring about change and in the positive contributions of religion and theology. His constructive work in theology draws on a wide range of historical and contemporary traditions, with a concern for manifestations of the divine in the pressures of everyday life
(Author) Dong-Kun Kim: Dong-Kun Kim is a professor at Youngnam Theological University and Seminary, South Korea. He has published over 15 books and 50 academic papers, which have been published in English and Korean, and many of which have received awards in Korea.
Observation by Fred Sanders
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DKK subscribes to panentheistic v ancient biblical pantheism
Observation by Natalie Marandiuc
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Observation by Sameer Yadav
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Observation by Jeorg Rieger
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Response by Dong-Kun Kim
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My personal impression - DKK seems quite interesting and should be read. The material on DKK is thin and could not be found through normal sources. We are left with his books of which there are two at present.
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