Author: hiram2009

In Spring 2026 I am teaching two undergraduate courses at Pepperdine University (Seaver College).

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I delivered a guest video lecture, “Chinese Pneumatologies: The Holy Spirit’s Dance with Spirits and a Constructive Pneumatology,” for the doctoral seminar TH866 (Pneumatology) at Fuller Theological Seminary, taught by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen. Summary The multi-faceted and variegated spirit world of China serves as a “dancing floor” for the Holy Spirit, facilitating meaningful interactions and producing…

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My dissertation-turned-book is now available from Brill—a religion–science–Daoism “trialogue” on Jingjiao, the earliest Chinese Christianity established by missionaries of the Church of the East. I am grateful to my mentor, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, for the foreword and for his guidance during my doctoral studies, and to Kirsteen Kim, Stephen Bevans, and Miikka Ruokanen for including the…

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My book Spirit(s) and Chinese Religiosity: Retelling the History of Chinese Christianity from a Pentecost Perspective has been published, and it is fully open access—free to read and download. The book About the book Any book, large or small, is written from a particular perspective. The one adopted here is the Holy Spirit in general,…

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At the 8th Academic Symposium on the Local and Global Development of Chinese Christianity, held at National Chengchi University in Taipei, I presented on the Christology of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee—a Spirit-empowered, missional Christology, read in the year marking the 1,700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed. The paper “由聖靈賦能的宣教性基督論：倪柝聲和李常受的基督論與全球宣教” (“A Missional Christology Empowered by…

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I gave a public lecture, “科學 Science & Belief 信仰,” at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, part of the “Global Symbiosis and Humanities Innovation” lecture series hosted by Si Wan College. About the lecture The lecture opened with a provocation—“Would you baptize an AI?”—using the case of a believing, praying artificial intelligence to lead…

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At the annual meetings of the AAR, SBL, and ETS in Boston, I presented at the Evangelical Theological Society on the long history of the Nicene Creed in China and what it offers a Chinese Christology for the third millennium. The paper “The Impact of the Nicene Creed on Chinese Christianity: Toward a Chinese Christology…

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On the Fuller Theological Seminary campus we convened the 2025 Ecumenical Symposium on Deification, which I helped organize and at which I presented the opening paper. The paper “Deification as a Structuring Framework in the ‘Systematic Theology’ of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee.” Summary The paper examines a significant aspect of Witness Lee’s implicit and…

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