Author: hiram2009

I presented (online) at PHAICON 2024 on a constructive Chinese theology of deification in conversation with posthumanism and transhumanism. The paper “Qi, Post-humanism, and Deification: Toward a Constructive Chinese Theology of Deification.” Summary The paper asks how Chinese Christianities have responded to posthumanism and transhumanism, and develops a constructive Chinese theology of deification (theosis) drawing…

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At the Tyndale Fellowship Conference in Cambridge, I presented on the earliest doctrine of creation written in Chinese—that of the Tang-dynasty Church of the East—read in conversation with science and religion. The paper “‘Looking up the creation in piety, and being fascinated by the Artisan-King’: The Earliest Doctrine of Creation in Chinese in Trialogue with…

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At the 33rd Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity, held at Yale Divinity School, I presented on the work of the Holy Spirit in the earliest mission to China. The paper “The Wind of the Spirit Is Blowing East: Ancestors, Deities, and the Holy Spirit in the Earliest Mission…

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I presented on a new theological method for bringing theology, science, and religion into a single conversation. The paper “具身批判实在论作为神学-科学-宗教三方对话的新神学方法” (“Embodied Critical Realism as a New Theological Method for the Theology–Science–Religion Trialogue”). Summary The paper introduces Embodied Critical Realism as a method for a three-way dialogue among theology, science, and religion, moving through the necessity…

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At the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies I presented a Pentecostal reading of the earliest Christian mission to China. The paper “The Pentecost in the Eyes of a Stranger in Ancient China: A Pentecostal Analysis of the Refugees’ Communication of the ‘Luminous’ Gospel in the Tang Dynasty.” Event A version of…

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I presented at Fuller’s Center for Missiological Research on the theology of creation in Jingjiao, the earliest Chinese Christianity. The paper “Jingjiao’s Qi-tological Theology of Creation in Theology-Science-Religion (Daoism) Trialogue.” Summary The paper begins from the observation that the Church of the East has been unduly marginalized, misrepresented, and misunderstood in the global Christian community,…

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At the third Chinese Theologies Conference, held at Yale, I presented a study of a Chinese theology of science through the work of Kang Phee Seng (江丕盛). The paper “From Bridge to Starlink: Chinese Theology of Science with a Case Study of Phee Seng Kang (江丕盛).” Summary The paper demonstrates the achievement of Kang Phee…

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