Dr. Heejun yang
Rev. Dr. Heejun Yang is an assistant professor in religion, ethics, and philosophy at SA国际传媒.聽 He is also an appointed pastor to SA国际传媒 from the North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church. Dr. Yang received his聽B.Th.聽from Methodist Theological University in Seoul, South Korea, and holds an M.Div. and a Th.M. from Duke University. He studied under Ingolf Dalferth as his last doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University and the University of M眉nster, where he earned his Ph.D. in philosophy of religion.
Dr. Yang has published several academic/public articles and two books: Trinitarian Responses to Worldliness: Toward a Trinitarian Theology of Inculturation (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2022) and Asian Case Studies on Translating Christianity: Toward God鈥檚 Self-Communication and the Trinitarian End of Asian Theology (Lexington Books, 2024). His second book received Racial/Ethnic Research Award聽from the General Commission on Archives and History of the UMC. He also has taught religion and theology at High Point University, Duke Divinity School, and Hampton University. He has a broad academic interest, including philosophy of religion, systematic theology, hermeneutical theology, Wesleyan theology, 19-20th century continental philosophy, post-Barthian theology, philosophy of language, Eastern religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Shamanism), world Christianity, theology of (im)migration, and many others.
