Paul C Chung

The Cave and the Butterfly: An Intercultural Theory of Interpretation and Religion in the Public Sphere

Description: This study offers an intercultural theory of interpretation and religion. It does so by bringing Western and East Asian traditions into dialogue regarding the nature of interpretation. The result of this innovative study is a theory of interpretation which integrates the socially embodi...

God at the Crossroads of Worldviews: Toward a Different Debate about the Existence of God

Debates about the existence of God persist but remain at an impasse between opposing answers. God at the Crossroads of Worldviews reframes the debate from a new perspective, characterizing the way these positions have defined and argued for their views not as wrong, per se, but rather as odd or awkw...

Postcolonial Public Theology: Faith, Scientific Rationality, and Prophetic Dialogue

Postcolonial Public Theology is a tour de force--theological reflection transformed by encounter with the most compelling intellectual discourses of our time. It offers prophetic challenge to the hegemony of economic globalization. Evolutionary science's encounter with life's limit questions require...

Karl Barth: Gods Word in Action

In this creative and original book, Paul S. Chung interprets Karl Barth as a theologian of divine action. Chung appreciates Barth's dogmatic theology as both contextual and irregular, and he retrieves the neglected sides of Barth's thought with respect to political radicalism, Israel, natural theolo...

Martin Luther and Buddhism: Aesthetics of Suffering, Second Edition (Princeton Theological Monograph)

'Martin Luther and Buddhism: Aesthetics of Suffering' carefully traces the historical and theological context of Luther's breakthrough in terms of articulating justi?cation and justice in connection to the Word of God and divine suffering. Chung critically and constructively engages in dialogue with...

Liberating Lutheran Theology: Freedom for Justice and Solidarity in a Global Context (Studies in Lutheran History and Theology)

Spanning the continents, three internationally respected theologians demonstrate how the thought and legacy of Martin Luther can serve in an ecumenical and interfaith context as a resource for a radical critique of global economics and culture. Lutheran Christianity originated in its own era of econ...

Reclaiming Mission as Constructive Theology: Missional Church and World Christianity

Reclaiming Mission as Constructive Theology offers a compelling case for the need to integrate God's mission and missional church conversation with a public and post-colonial study of World Christianity. Driven by a commitment to publicly engaged theology that takes seriously the reality of Global C...

Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics: Confessing Christ in Post-Colonial World Christianity (Missional Church, Public Theology, World Christianity)

Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics is a groundbreaking attempt to present constructive missional theology in an integrative and interdisciplinary framework as it provocatively utilizes and contextualizes Reformation theology and hermeneutics concerning ethical theology embedd...

Spirituality and Social Ethics in John Calvin: A Pneumatological Perspective

Computer Control and Human Error