David Thang Moe

Jesus and the Powers

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“The rise of Christian nationalism in the United States, the rise of Buddhist nationalism and the coup in Myanmar, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the Israel-Palestine conflict all pose moral challenges in how Christians should faithfully witness to Jesus as the global lord of freedom. N. T. Wright and Michael Bird, whose lives have both been shaped by world empires in some way, have written a timely book on Jesus and the powers. Using the Bible as source and the kingdom of God as a theological foundation, they innovatively demonstrate how Jesus and his disciples’ political witness against powers in the first century should be used as a contextual guide for the contemporary church’s public witness against political powers of the regimes for the common good in the twenty-first century. This brilliant book is a fresh contribution to New Testament political theology today. It offers readers a nuanced understanding of the relationship between Christ, the kingdom, the church, and politics. This book is academic yet accessible, political yet pastoral. I highly recommend it to anyone working in the global academy, grassroots church, and public society.”

Understanding Korean Christianity

Evangelism & Missions

“K. Kale Yu brings a fresh voice to the methodology of world Christianity from the perspectives of grassroots approaches. Using South Korea as his context and terraculturalism as his methodology, Yu expertly explores grassroots Korean Christian perspectives on causes, culture, and responses in dialogue with the Korean native religions, such as Confucianism and Shamanism. When the trained theologians humbly and critically engage the theologies found and practiced in the socio-religious lives of the experiential grassroots communities, the more relevant theologies and missiologies emerge for the mutual benefits of both academic and ordinary Christian communities. This book is an important and a timely contribution to the fresh methodology of world Christianity. I heartily recommend it.”