the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality…

“I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.”

— Namsoon Kang

“Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.”

— Namsoon Kang

“Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective”

— Namsoon Kang

“Teaching and learning _religious plurality often ends up privileging religious _texts_ over _practice_ and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and the lived…

— Namsoon Kang

“Cosmopolitanism has offered me an ethical perspective and a conceptual framework with which to read the _signs of our times_ as a theologian and…

— Namsoon Kang

“One should regard one's religious or denominational affiliation as a point of departure, a point of entry, not the point of arrival because on…

— Namsoon Kang

“Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.”

— Namsoon Kang

“Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has to comply…

— Namsoon Kang

“What does it mean to be human, to continue to live as human, to remain _faithful_ to the Divine while living in a cultural,…

— Namsoon Kang

“Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people”

— Namsoon Kang

“Who are theologians? What kind of self-identity could or should a theologian claim? Should a theologian be a defender or transmitter of Christian _tradition_?…

— Namsoon Kang

“the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.”

— Namsoon Kang

“I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one's profound…

— Namsoon Kang

“Cosmopolitan theology affirms and radicalizes the belief that the Divine creates each and every human being as equal to every one else as a…

— Namsoon Kang

“Theologians are to look to the _beyond_-community–– _beyond_ nationality; skin-color, gender; sexual orientation, citizenship, religious affiliation––because God, the Divine, who is the primary frame…

— Namsoon Kang