“Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve?” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." [As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment ]” — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_.” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“The question is not, therefore, _whether_ a theory is grand or small, or whether it is universal/global or particular/local, but _what function_… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today — Ismail Serageldin Copy Share Image
“I believe that dreaming an _impossible_ world, is itself the task of theologies and that the disparity between _the world-as-it-is_ (reality) and… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitan discourse is in a way a response to the issue of solidarity. Although the precondition for solidarity can be a _community_,… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
“cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out… — Will Self Copy Share Image
When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitan discourse emphasizes the _cosmic belonging_ of all individual human beings as the ground of our hospitality, solidarity, justice and neighbor-love. Cosmopolitan… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“I fully recognize there is an urgent need for constructing the _strategic we-nes-in-sameness_ and promoting the _solidarity of sameness_. The sheer realization… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“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… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“now the question we must ask is...what kind of _practices_ [theology] motivates, what kind of _gaze_ onto others, the guest, the new… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitanism,..., _speaks_ about the urgent need for and the significance of relocating our discourse on,..., the scope and application of rights and… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Although I believe identity politics '"produces limited but real empowerment for its participants," it is important to note that it contains significant… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Who are theologians? What kind of self-identity could or should a theologian claim? Should a theologian be a defender or transmitter of… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
“The time and space in which I have been working on this cosmopolitan project have convinced me that the disparity between the… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“One should regard one's religious or denominational affiliation as a point of departure, a point of entry, not the point of arrival… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Teaching and learning _religious plurality often ends up privileging religious _texts_ over _practice_ and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitanism promotes a sense of new _we-ness as regarding every individual human being as a citizen of the cosmos. However, the _we-cosmic-citizens_… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be human, to continue to live as human, to remain _faithful_ to the Divine while living in… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“And you can fool yourself if you’re raised in New York. Think that somehow your birthplace alone makes you cosmopolitan. But it… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitanism is a radical affirmation of the idea of neighbor/enemy-love-as-self love...Cosmopolitanism is about a cosmic scope of justice and hospitality––another name for… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitan theology affirms and radicalizes the belief that the Divine creates each and every human being as equal to every one else… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
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