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Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Grace Ji-Sun Kim
	Dr. Kim during a seminar in Colorado Springs, October, 2010
Born	May 4, 1969 (age 55); Seoul, South Korea
	Theological work
Era	21st-century Theology
Tradition or movement	Protestant Theology, Third-wave feminism, Post-colonial theory
Main interests	Asian-American Feminist theory, Constructive Theology

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 on May 4, 1969. She immigrated with her family to London, Ontario in 1975. She earned a B.Sc. in Psychology from Victoria University, a Master of Divinity from Knox College, University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from St. Michael's College, University of Toronto.

Personal Life[edit]

Dr. Kim is married to Dr. Perry Y. C. Lee, a Professor of Mathematics at Kutztown University. They have three children, Theodore Andrew, Elisabeth Sophia, and Joshua Benjamin. She is active in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and in the Korean Church of the Lehigh Valley in Whitehall, Pennsylvania.

Academic Positions[edit]

Dr. Kim is currently the Associate Professor of Doctrinal Theology and director of the MATS program at the Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania^[1], having taught there since 2004.

Overview of works[edit]

Dr. 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.

Dr. Kim is currently serving her second term term on the American Academy of Religion’s (AAR) ‘Racial Ethnic Minorities Committee’ and is a steering committee member on AAR’s ‘Comparative Theology Group’ and “Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching and Activism Consultation.” She sits on the editorial board for the Journal for Religion and Popular Culture and is a referee for both the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion and the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.

Selected Awards and Honors[edit]

2010 Wabash Center Summer Research Fellowship,
2007 Yale Awards, Faith as a Way of Life, semifinalist
2007 Wabash Center Summer Research Fellowship,
2005 - 2006 Lilly Theological Research Grant
2001 Toronto School of Theology
2000 - 2001 Fund for Theological Education (FTE)
2000 John M. Kelly Award, Toronto School of Theology (T.S.T.)
2000 American Academy of Religion-Eastern International Region
Graduate Student Prize-Best Essay
1999 Robert Walker Russell Memorial Scholarship, Knox College
1997 Knox College Graduate Scholarship
1995 - 1996 Knox-Ewart Alumni Scholarship
1995 The Knox College Post-Graduate Scholarship

Publications[edit]

2013: Proper 13 for Year A, in Preaching Gods Transformative Justice: A Lectionary Commentary, With 22 Holy Days of Justice, edited by Ron Lewis, Dale P. Andrews & Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press) (forthcoming)
2012: Proper 13 for Year C, in Preaching Gods Transformative Justice: A Lectionary Commentary, With 22 Holy Days of Justice, edited by Ron Lewis, Dale P. Andrews & Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press) (forthcoming)
2012: A Perspective on Ezra, Global Perspectives on the Bible, edited by Mark Roncace & Joseph Weaver (Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall) (forthcoming)
2012: Uriah, Dictionary of the Bible and Western Culture, co-edited by Michael Gilmour & Mary Ann Beavis (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press) (forthcoming)
2011: The Holy Spirit, Chi, and the Other: A Model of Global and Intercultural Pneumatology : ISBN 978-0230120303
2011: Jurgen Moltmann, in Beyond the Pale: Reading Christian Theology from the Margins, edited by Miguel De La Torre & Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press) (Contributor)
2011: Feasting on the Word, Year A,: Season After Pentecost 2, contributor : ISBN 978-0664231071
2011: Proper 13 for Year B, in Preaching Gods Transformative Justice: A Lectionary Commentary, With 22 Holy Days of Justice, edited by Ron Lewis, Dale P. Andrews & Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press) (contributor)
2011: Three Theological Commentaries on 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8, 1 John 3:1-3 & 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13 in Feasting on the Word, Year A: Season After Pentecost 2, Volume XII, edited by David L. Bartlett & Barbara Brown Taylor (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press) (contributor)
2010: The Grace of Sophia: A Korean North American Women's Christology : ISBN 978-1608992133
2008: What Forms Us: Multiculturalism, the Other and Theology, in Feminist Theology With A Canadian Accent: Canadian Perspectives on Contextual Theology, edited by Mary Ann Beavis, Elaine Guillemin & Barbara Pell (Ottawa: Novalis), 78-99 (contributor)
2007: Literary Commentary on Bread for the Journey, by Henri Nouwen, in Masterplots II: Christian Literature, edited by John K. Roth (Pasadena: Salem Press), 215-217 (contributor)

References[edit]

^ "Curriculim Vitae" (PDF).

External links[edit]

[cv-1] "Curriculim Vitae" (PDF).

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