Heup Young Kim

Heup Young Kim (Kim, Hŭb-yŏng; 김흡영 金洽榮, b. 1949, South Korea) is a Korean Christian theologian and a scholar of East Asian religions (Confucianism and Taoism), specialized in Asian constructive theology, interfaith dialogue, and religion and science.[1] He was Professor of Systematic Theology at Kangnam University in South Korea and a dean of the College of Humanities and Liberal arts, the Graduate School of Theology, and the University Chapel. Kim is one of the founding members and fellows of the International Society for Science and Religion and was a co-moderator of the 6th and 7th Congress of Asian Theologians as well as a president of the Korean Society of Systematic Theology.

Early Life

After graduating from the Engineering College of Seoul National University, he worked as an airplane mechanic for Korean Air Lines and then was hired to work in the Planning Office of Daewoo Corporation. During the Korean economic boom of the 70's, he became a representative of Samhwa Corporation in New York City, a general trading company (import/export) for many products, such as shoes and silk. Then, he had a religious conversion from Confucianism to Christianity, which made him dramatically move into theological studies.

Academic Life

He earned a M.Div. and Th.M. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California (directed by Claude Welch). He has carried out extensive research in the areas of Asian constructive theology, interreligious dialogue, comparative theology, and science and religion dialogue. He has been a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions in Harvard University and the Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions in Doshisha University. He has also been a visiting fellow at the Centre for Advanced Religious Theological Studies in the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, as well as a visiting scholar at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) in the Graduate Theological Union.

Kim has received numerous honors and awards including the Graduate Theological Union Alum of the Year for 2009,[2] the Global Perspectives on Science and Spirituality (2005-6), John Templeton Research grant (2004-5), and Kangnam University Most Distinguished Research Professor Award (2003). He has also published numerous works in the areas of interfaith dialogue, theology of religions, Asian theology, and science and religion, including Wang Yang-ming and Karl Barth: A Confucian-Christian Dialogue (1996), Christ and the Tao (2003), The Tao in Confucianism and Taoism (2011), and A Theology of Dao (2017), in English[3]; Toward a Theology of the Tao (2000), Contemporary Natural Sciences and Christianity (2006), Theology of the Tao II (2012), and A Global Korean Theology of Dasok Ryu Young-mo (2013), in Korean.

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