“now the question we must ask is...what kind of _practices_ [theology] motivates, what kind of _gaze_ onto others, the guest, the new arrivant, it offers us to carry with us; _not_ who my neighbors are _but_ to whom I am… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_.” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
![“now the question we must ask is...what kind of _practices_ [theology] motivates, what kind of _gaze_ onto others, the guest, the new arrivant, it offers us to carry with us; _not_ who my neighbors are _but_ to whom I am being a neighbor.” quote by Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2d/namsoon-kang-16502_christianity_now-the-question-we-must-ask-is-what-kin_1259857.jpg)
