Hot Off the Presses! SANACS Journal #4!

The long anticipated SANACS Journal 2012-2013 is now available in trade paperback for order HERE. Available now for 19.00USD. 

This issue features articles from Asian American Equipping Symposia II & III.

AAES II: “The Lost Coin”

• Esther Chung Kim – “Traditioning” Both Ways: Re-Interpreting Christianity for Asian Americans
• Amos Yong – What Asian, Which American? Whose Evangelion? Whither Asian American Evangelical Theology?
• Charlene Jin Lee – A Response to Mirrored Reflections

AAES III: “Healing of Memories”

• Richard J. Mouw – Shalom and Confucian Harmony
• Miyoung Yoon Hammer – Psychological Homelessness: Healing Intergenerational Wounds
• Andrew Sung Park – Healing the Wound of Asian American Christian Families in the Context of Confucianism and Christianity
• Annie Tsai – Healing of Memories: Three Identity Wounds from Confucianism in Asian American Christianity
• Jeney Park-Hearn – First Response to Park & Tsai
• Andrew Lee – Second Response to Park & Tsai
• Amos Yong – Asian American Historicity: Problems and Promises for Evangelical Theology
• Henry Kuo – Forgiving From Liminal Space: Locating Asian American Theologies of Forgivness

Book Reviews:

• Justin K.H. Tse – Jiwu Wang’s “His Dominion” and the “Yellow Peril“
• Amos Yong – Brian Bantum’s Redeeming Mulatto
• Paul Junggap Huh – Russell Yee’s Worship on the Way

coming soon: SANACS 4

SANACS Journal #4 is undergoing final editing and will be available soon!

This issue includes article contributions by: Esther Chung Kim, Amos Yong, Charlene Jin Lee, Richard Mouw, Miyoung Yoon Hammer, Andrew Sung Park, Annie Tsai, Jeney Park-Hearn,  Andrew Lee, and Henry Kuo. Also find book reviews by: Justin K.H. Tse, Paul Junggap Huh, and Amos Yong.

Review- Conversations: Asian American Evangelical Theologies in Formation

Here is a review of D. J. Chuang and Timothy Tseng, eds., Conversations: Asian American Evangelical Theologies in Formation in Religious Studies Review 33:4 (2007): 319-20 by Dr. Amos Yong of Regent University School of Divinity. The Religious Studies Review is published by the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion.

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CONVERSATIONS: ASIAN AMERICAN EVANGELICAL THEOLOGIES IN FORMATION. Edited by D. J. Chuang and Timothy Tseng. Washington, DC: L2 Foundation, 2006. Pp. xi + 130. Paper, $10.00, ISBN: none; the book is available from www.L2Foundation.org.

Published by an organization devoted to “Asian American leadership and legacy development” (website), this is the first book to appear on the topic of Asian American evangelical theology (AAET). The six essayists reflect the diversity of the AAE community. David Yoo, a historian at Claremont McKenna College, surveys (with two collaborators) the pre-WWII histories of Japanese and Korean American Christians, and urges that religion needs to be factored into immigration and race analyses of these communities, even as Tim Tseng, a historian of American Christianity and founder of the Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity (http://www.isaacweb.org), exposes the “color blindness” of American church history and provides some hermeneutical options for moving beyond orientalist or assimilationist models of the Asian American Christian experience. A practical theologian at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Peter Cha, discusses the challenges involved in identity formation among second generation Korean Americans. An intriguing essay is missiologist James Zo’s insightful analysis of how structural and power issues complicate the assessment of racism, prejudice, and discrimination on both sides of the American and Asian American equation. For a volume on AAET, the two explicitly theological essays are by historical theologians: Paul Lim (who specializes in early modern England and teaches at Vanderbilt University) reveals the importance of biography in the construction of any AAET, and Jeffrey Jue (a post-Reformation historian at Westminster Theological Seminary) seeks a way beyond both modernist experientialism and postmodernist subjectivism by returning to the gospel. May others join in the conversation launched herein.

Amos Yong
Professor of Theology and Director of PhD Program in Renewal Studies
Regent University School of Divinity

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Dr. Amos Yong is author of six well received books, including the forthcoming Hospitality and the Other: Pentecost, Christian Practices, and the Neighbor (Orbis Books, 2008). A clergyman with the Pentecostal Assemblies of God Church, his scholarly life is dedicated to deepening biblical theology and promoting ecumenical and interfaith understanding.