Following calls in recent critical debates English-language Korean studies to reevaluate the cultural concept of han (often translated as “resentment”), this article argues for its reconsideration from vantage point minjung theology, a theological perspective that emerged South Korea 1970s, which has been dubbed version “liberation theology”. Like Latin American counterpart, theology understood...

The feminist queer theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid (1952–2009) wrote about what it meant to be an “indecent theologian” and claimed that sexual stories from the margins of society can help transform theological issues. What can “indecent theology” mean for the problem of evil specifically as it is addressed in the book of Job? This article will use Althaus-Reid’s creative methodology, which en...

This paper calls for an ethical turn in communication. It offers a re-evaluation of Weaver’s metaphor on communication as exchanges of information and develops Buber’s and Peters’ ideas on communication as manifestation of the ethical, where the ethical is described as openness to otherness and communication is viewed as a tension between reproduction of Self and reconciliation with alterity. I...

In a popular paper, Bruce Russell argues that our nonperception of divine reasons for apparently pointless suffering justifies belief in the nonexistence God. generally accepts common interpretive norm we are justified believing something does not exist when do perceive it, if and only have reason to believe would it did exist. However, on strength an example from film The Matrix, this apply Go...

Abstract Based on a national survey of U.S. adults conducted six weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, this article investigates how crisis affects religious faith. Almost no Americans reported losing or weakening faith in response to pandemic at time. By contrast, nearly one-third believers indicated that coronavirus outbreak had strengthened their We theoretically develop and empirically test thr...

Abstract Juan Antonio Estrada, a Spanish philosopher and theologian, proposes the search for meaning in life as theological place valid experience of God. The “achieved” or fully realized life, to which every human being aspires, is proposal salvation that Jesus makes possible with proclamation Reign opens hopeful future Easter. By bringing reason faith into dialogue, Estrada contributes fundam...