“I believe _cosmopolitanism_ can be an effective discourse with which to advocate a politics of _transidentity_ of overlapping interests and heterogeneous or… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Theological discourses function in various ways as sites of contestation and resistance, of forming new religious and personal identities, and of building… — Namsoon Kang 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
“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
“Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.” — Namsoon Kang 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
“Walter Mignolo terms and articulates _critical cosmopolitanism, juxtaposing it with globalization, which is a process of "the homogeneity of the planet from… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitanism seeks a _we_ that does not rely on the exclusion of _others_ but, instead, recognizes and confirms each other as part… — Namsoon Kang 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
“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 want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.” — 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 as a… — 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 one's profound… — 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
“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 Image
“Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people” — 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 a cultural,… — 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 to comply… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.” — 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 because on… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
