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In this study Kim explores a new way of reading Pauls letters and understanding his theology with a focus on three aspects of Pauls gospel: "the righteousness of God," "faith of Christ," and "the body of Christ." Kim argues that Pauls thought can be best understood by reading these genitives as the subjective or attributive genitives, rather than as the objective genitives. The subjective or attributive reading places an emphasis on the subjects participation: Gods participatory righteousness, Christs faithful obedience to God, and the believers living of Christs body. Using this...

Description: In A Transformative Reading of the Bible Yung Suk Kim raises critical questions about human transformation in biblical studies. What is transformation? How are we transformed when we read biblical stories? Are all transformative aspects equally valid? What kind of relationships exists between self, neighbor, and God if transformation is involved in these three? Who or what is being changed, or who or what are we changing? What degree of change might be considered "transformative"? Kim explores a dynamic, cyclical process of human transformation and argues that healthy...

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This edited volume brings Ahn Byung-Mus minjung theology into dialogue with twenty-first-century readers. Ahn Byung-Mu was one of the pioneers of Korean minjung theology. The centerpiece of his minjung theology is focused on the Greek word ochlos, understood as the divested, marginalized, powerless people.

Part 1 introduces readers to his life and theological legacy. Part 2 includes four important writings of Ahn Byung-Mu: ""Jesus and Minjung in the Gospel of Mark,"" ""Minjung Theology in the Gospel of Mark,"" ""The Transmitters of Jesus Event Tradition,"" and ""Minjok,...

The first part of the book includes nature poems based on the spirit of the Tao Te Ching and deals with things in nature: water, river, sea, earth, dust, mountain, flower, forest, rock, heaven, wind, and etc. The second part contains background commentaries about the poems.

This book seeks comparative wisdom in the Tao Te Ching and the Bible. For this purpose, the Tao Te Ching is newly translated and commentated from a biblical scholar's perspective. In doing so, this book brings the Tao Te Ching into dialogue with the Bible with a focus on cross-cultural wisdom and ethical mandates in both traditions.

About the Contributor(s): Yung Suk Kim is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University in Richmond. Kim is the author of Christ's Body in Corinth (2008), A Theological Introduction to Paul's Letters (2011), Biblical Interpretation (2013), and A Transformative Reading of the Bible (2013). Kim is editor of the Journal of Bible and Human Transformation.

Jesus cannot be domesticated In Resurrecting Jesus Kim asks the fundamental two-prong question, ""What, then, can we learn from Jesus, and how can we build on the significance of his life and work as we do theology for our day in the here and now?"" Kim abandons the traditional divide between criticism and theology and argues that a solid New Testament theology can be reconstructed from a critical study of the historical Jesus. Jesus is put back into the context of first-century Judaism in Palestine. Resurrecting Jesus reexamines Jesus' life, work, death, and resurrection, giving readers -a...