프로필 – 좁은문은혜교회

Pastor James Park

Education

* Th.B. in Theology, College of Theology, Yonsei University

* Th.M. in Systematic Theology, United Graduate School of Theology, Yonsei Univ.

* Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion, Graduate School of Theology, Yonsei Univ.

* Th.M. in Missionology, Asian Center for Theological Studies and Missions

* Ph.D. in Systematic Theology, ACTS

* Th.D. in Ministry (Church History), Graduate School of Pastoral Theology, Korea Baptist Theological University and Seminary

Ministry Experience

*Adjunct Professor and Lecturer (2016-present)

* Research Professor, Institute of Christianity and Korean Culture (ICKC) (2023-present)

* Pastor of Narrow Door Grace Church

Books

『Artificial Intelligence, the Existence of the Soul』Communication Books, 2025

『Introduction to AI for the 5060 Generation III』Communication Books, 2025

Translation

『A History of Evangelical Theology』Christian Today, 2017

Articles
* 23 articles in domestic academic journals (KCI)

* 3 articles in international academic journals (A&HCI)

Op-eds

* Kookmin Daily: Current Affairs Section [Professor Park Wook Joo's Christian Cultural Critique]

* Ministry and Theology: Issues and Analysis [Trends in Media]

* Christian Today: Park Wook Joo Column [Bricolage in the Movie]

Awards
* Selected as an Outstanding Research Achivement (2022) by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
* Received the Best Paper Award at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Korea Association of Christian Studies (KACS)

Research Areas

* High Medieval Metaphysics (Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas)

* Medieval Negative Theology and Mysticism (Eckhart, Cusanus)

* Medieval Nominalism (Scotus, Ockham)

* Reformation Theology (Luther, Calvin)

* Baptist History and Early English Baptist Church History (Servetus, Smith, Helwiss, Jacob)

* Modern Pietism (Spener, Francke, von Zinzendorf)

* Modern Rationalism and Empiricism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke, Hume)

* Modern Transcendentalism (Kant)

* Modern Religious Theory and Christian Belief (Schleiermacher)

* German Idealism (Hegel)

* Modern and Contemporary Religious Studies and Philosophy of Religion (Otto, James, Campbell, Frazer)

* Modern and Contemporary Atheism (Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche)

* Modern and Contemporary Baptist Theology (Spurgeon, Rauschenbusch, Carey, Erickson, George)

* Modern and Contemporary Reformed Theology (Hodge, Kuyper, Bavinck, Schaeffer, Murray, Berkhof)

* Neo-Kantian Theology of Religion (Cohen, Windelband, Rickert, Troeltsch)

* Modern and Contemporary Positivism (Comte, Wittgenstein, Carnap)

* Modern Philosophy of Science (Popper, Kuhn)

* Philosophy of Life (Dilthey, Bergson)

* Psychology and Philosophy of Mind (Freud, Jung)

* Modern Phenomenology (Husserl, Merleau-Ponty) and Existential Philosophy (Heidegger, Sartre)

* Modern and Contemporary Jewish Mysticism and Jewish Ethics (Buber, Rosenzweig)

* Existentialist Christianity Philosophy (Tillich)

* Neo-orthodoxy (Barth, Brunner)

* Christian Relational Philosophy and Theology (Bonhoeffer)

* Catholic Neo-Scholasticism and Transcendental Theology (Prsivara, Rahner)

* Contemporary Catholic Theology (Balthasar, Küng, Ratzinger)

* Existentialist Zen Buddhism (Nishida, Nishitani, Waldenfels)

* Ethical Phenomenology (Levinas)

* Contemporary German Dialectical Theology (Moltmann, Pannenberg)

* Philosophical Hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur)

* Contemporary Discourse Ethics (Habermas)

* Structuralism (Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Althusser)

* Post-structuralism (Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Lacan)

* Contemporary Marxism (Adorno, Lefebvre, Horkheimer)

* Catholic Phenomenology (Marion, Lacuste, Chrétien)

* Feminist Existentialism (Beauvoir) and Feminist Post-structuralism (Irigaray, Butler)

* Religious Pluralism (Hick, Panickar)

* Eco-Feminist Theology (Ruether, McFague, Shiva)

* Process Theology (Whitehead, Hartshorne, Cobb)

* Artificial Intelligence Philosophy of Technology (Turing, Newell, Simon, Bostrom, Dreyfus, Floridi)

* Postmodern Theology (Caputo, Vanhoozer)

* Posthuman Theology (Fettbates, Waters, Van Huysteen)

* Christian Analytical Philosophy (Alston, Plantinga)

* Scientific Theology and the Dialogue Between Theology and Science (Barber, Peacock, Polkinghorne, McGrath, Peters, Lennox, Craig, Moreland, Grudem)

* Theistic Evolution (DeChardin, Collins)

Media Appearances

* C Channel Magazine 'Good Day' - Issue Focus

(The Rising Issue of Shamanism : Do Even Church Members Visit Fortune-tellers?!)

(Explosive Growth of the Shamanism Market! : Even Church Members Are Not Safe)

· CBS Official Youtube Channel – CBS JOY Dialogue 36.5 (Ep.32)

(The Rampant Spread of Shamanism : What About the Korean Church?)