Grace Ji-Sun Kim
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Dr. Kim during a seminar in Colorado Springs, October, 2010
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May 4, 1969 Seoul, South Korea |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Protestant theology, Third-wave feminism, Post-colonial theory |
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Main interests
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Feminist theory, Constructive theology |
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Grace Ji-Sun Kim is a Korean-American theologian and professor. She is best known for books and articles on the social and religious experiences of Korean women immigrants to North America. Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea. She immigrated with her family to London, Ontario in 1975. She earned a B.Sc. in Psychology from Victoria University at the University of Toronto, a Master of Divinity degree from Knox College, University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from St. Michael's College, University of Toronto.
Kim served on the faculty of Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, PA from fall 2004 to July 2013. During her time at Moravian, she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010 and served two terms as Director of the MATS program. Dr. Kim was ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA) on Nov. 13, 2011. She is currently an Associate Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Ind.
Kim specializes in writing and teaching constructive theology, feminist theology, post-colonial theology, and Asian-American theology. Her first book, The Grace of Sophia, deals with the suffering in patriarchal Korean (Confucian and Christian) families and the way in which the ancient Hebrew notion of female Wisdom, Sophia, can liberate patriarchal Christology. Her second book, The Holy Spirit, Chi, and the Other celebrates the sense in which the Chinese / Korean / Japanese notion of Chi can add substance to our understanding of the Holy Spirit and unite spiritual ideas in Christianity with those in Confucianism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Buddhism. She has contributed to more than eleven other books on several contextual theological themes, and has contributed numerous papers and symposia participations on these subjects. She is currently working on 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, in Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible, part of a series by Westminster John Knox Press on the theological importance of these books for the church today.
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