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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 Missiology, 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 journal (KCI)

· 3 articles in international academic journal(A&HCI)

· 1 article in international academic journal (SCOPUS)

 

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 Achievement (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

{Ancient & Medieval}

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

· Medieval Apophatic Theology & Mysticism (Eckhart, Cusanus)

· Medieval Nominalism (Scotus, Ockham)


{Reformation & Church History}

· Reformation Theology (Luther, Calvin)

· Baptist History & Early English Baptist Church History (Servetus, Smyth, Helwys, Jacob)


{Modern}

· Modern Pietism (Spener, Francke, von Zinzendorf)

· Modern Rationalism & Empiricism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke, Hume)

· Modern Transcendentalism (Kant)

· Modern Religion & Christian Faith (Schleiermacher)

· German Idealism (Hegel)


{Late Modern (19th–Early 20th Century)}

· Late Modern Religious Studies & Philosophy of Religion (Otto, James, Campbell, Frazer)

· Late Modern Atheism (Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche)

· Late Modern Baptist Theology (Spurgeon, Rauschenbusch, Carey, Erickson, George)

· Late Modern Reformed Theology (Hodge, Kuyper, Bavinck, Schaeffer, Murray, Berkhof)

· Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Religion (Cohen, Windelband, Rickert, Troeltsch)

· Late Modern Positivism (Comte, Wittgenstein, Carnap)

· Philosophy of Life (Dilthey, Bergson)

· Psychology & Philosophy of Mind (Freud, Jung)

· Late Modern Jewish Mysticism & Ethics (Buber, Rosenzweig)


{Contemporary (Mid–Late 20th Century to Present)}

· Contemporary Philosophy of Science (Popper, Kuhn)

· Contemporary Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy (Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Sartre)

· Existential Christian Philosophy (Tillich)

· Neo-Orthodoxy (Barth, Brunner)

· Christian Relational Philosophy & Theology (Bonhoeffer)

· Catholic Neo-Scholasticism & Transcendental Theology (Przywara, Rahner)

· Contemporary Catholic Theology (von Balthasar, Küng, Ratzinger)

· Existential Philosophy of Zen Buddhism (Nishida, Nishitani, Waldenfels)

· Ethical Phenomenology (Levinas)

· Contemporary German Apologetic 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, Lacoste, Chrétien)

· Feminist Existential Philosophy & Post-Structuralism (Beauvoir, Irigaray, Butler)

· Religious Pluralism (Hick, Panikkar)

· Ecofeminist Theology (Ruether, McFague, Shiva)

· Process Theology (Whitehead, Hartshorne, Cobb)

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

· Postmodern Theology (Caputo, Vanhoozer)

· Posthuman Theology (Hefner, Waters, van Huyssteen)

· Christian Analytic Philosophy (Alston, Plantinga)

· Scientific Theology & Theology–Science Dialogue (Barbour, Peacocke, Polkinghorne, McGrath, Peters, Lennox, Craig, Moreland, Grudem)

· Theistic Evolution (Teilhard de Chardin, 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?)

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