About Jihyung
Born, educated, and ordained in South Korea. I, INFJ in MBTI, love biking, hiking, and being with my wife and two high schoolers. I was dedicated to campus and church ministry in Korea and the US, and I aspire to explore God’s guidance at Fuller. With a pro-missionary stance in Neo-Calvinism, as a slow and late learner, I struggle with the inner homogeneous tendency in a polycentric and interconnected world, where interests are expanding into self-theologizing, World Christianity, intercultural theology, and contextualization in ritual change. “What’s the most nationalistic is the most international” (J. W. von Goethe) – how might self and others be interconnected in theology and mission? How can the most local be the most global? Exploring the definition and agent of self-theologizing beyond/in the postmodern and postcolonial theology and mission. I humbly welcome any productive conversation for learning.
Education
Chongshin Theological Seminary, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, Yale Divinity School
2005, 2010, 2015
MDiv, MABL, STM
Anyang University
2001
ThB
Research Interests
Self-theologizing, World Christianity, Missiology, Intercultural Theology, BAM
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