Park Soon-kyung

Park Soon-kyung (Korean: 박순경; Hanja: 朴淳敬; born 1923) is a South Korean Methodist theologian.

Biography

Born in Yeoju of Gyeonggi Province, Park first studied nursing before pursuing degrees in theology at Methodist Theological University in Seoul and philosophy at Seoul National University.[1] She went for further studies in the United States, pursuing an MDiv at Emory University and a PhD at Drew University, completing a dissertation in 1966 on "Man in Karl Barth's doctrine of election."[2]

Park returned to South Korea and was a professor of theology for 22 years at Ewha Woman's University (1966–1988), where she continues to hold a post as a professor emerita.[3] She is known for her work towards a theology for the unification of North and South Korea, drawing from and critiquing minjung theology,[4] and for the promotion of South Korean feminist theology.[5]

References
  1. Song, Hoon (2019). Diverse Theological Approaches to a Divided Land: A Critical Assessment of Liberal and Conservative South Korean Protestant Thinking on the Problem of a Divided Korea (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. p. 118. hdl:1842/35713.
  2. Park Soon-kyung (1966). Man in Karl Barth's doctrine of election (PhD diss.). Drew University. ProQuest 302187501.
  3. England, John C., ed. (2004). Asian Christian Theologies: Northeast Asia. 3. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis. pp. 573–574.
  4. Park, Sam-kyung (2009). Towards an Ethics of Korean Reunification (PhD diss.). Drew University. pp. 132–137. ProQuest 304879481.
  5. Chung, Hyun Kyung (1990). Struggle to be the Sun Again: Introducing Asian Women's Theology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis. pp. 57-59. ISBN 978-0-88344-684-3.
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