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The Handbook of Theological Education in World Christianity is the first attempt to map and analyze developments in theological education on a global scale. This volume, with contributions from 98 leaders in theological education from around the world, provides a comprehensive introduction to the major themes and contexts in the international discourse on theological education, surveys of the issues and challenges faced in different regions, and introductory essays on the developments in the major denominational families in World Christianity. The editors are Dietrich Werner, World Council of Churches, Geneva; David Esterline, McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago; Namsoon Kang, Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth; and Joshva Raja, Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham.
About Namsoon Kang
Namsoon Kang is professor of Theology and Religion at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University. She previously taught on the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has been actively involved in various international ecumenical organizations and movements and was a plenary speaker at the WCC 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2006. An acclaimed speaker who lectures throughout the world, she is active in international ecumenical organizations and movements. Teaching, researching, and writing from trans-disciplinary spaces, her particular theoretical interests are in discourses of apophatic theology/philosophy, deconstruction, postmodernism, postcolonialism, feminism, and diaspora. Her writing on cosmopolitan theology engages recent theories of cosmopolitan rights, justice, and hospitality, especially those of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jacques Derrida.
