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What happens when the crossroads of faith and mental health feel deeply disorienting and overwhelming?
In Rooted in Love, Resilient in Mind, Kim delivers a profound exploration of the intersection between mental health, spirituality, and the lifelong quest for identity. Navigating the modern challenges of anxiety and self-discovery can leave us feeling fractured. Yet, within this exact struggle lies a powerful, hidden opportunity for spiritual and psychological renewal.
By masterfully integrating insights from biblical studies, cognitive science, and psychological theory, this groundbreaking work bridges the gap between ancient faith and modern science. Dr. Kim offers practical, life-changing strategies to help readers not only manage the weight of anxiety but also engage in a deeper, more authentic exploration of the self.
Compelling, empathetic, and intellectually rigorous, this book is an essential guide for anyone seeking a resilient mind, a renewed spirit, and a life deeply rooted in love.
Biblical Studies and Life:
Probing Ideologies and Strategies of Biblical Interpretation
This book brings together a powerful collection of essays addressing a vital, long-held concern: the essential relationship between biblical interpretation and communal life. Moving beyond isolated, individualistic readings, this book challenges us to reclaim the Bible as a text meant to be understood and lived out together.
- Spanning critical historical inquiry and modern sociopolitical reality, the book is structured to guide readers through a complete paradigm shift:The Communal Necessity: Exploring why community-centered interpretation is vital for a faithful understanding of Scripture.
- The Margin as Ground: Laying a foundation for community by looking at the text through the powerful lens of marginal reading.
- The Roots of Individualism: Tracing the historical and philosophical origins of modern, isolated reading habits.
- Sociopolitical Engagement: Confronting urgent, real-world sociopolitical questions embedded within the Hebrew Bible.
Dao De Jing
A New Translation
Why Christians Need to Read the Tao Te Ching
A New Translation and Commentary on the Tao Te Ching from a Biblical Scholar's Perspective
A New Translation and Commentary on the Tao Te Ching from a Biblical Scholar's Perspective
What can a fifth-century BCE Chinese sage teach us about following Jesus today?
In Why Christians Need to Read the Tao Te Ching, biblical scholar Dr. Yung Suk Kim offers a groundbreaking new translation and commentary on Laozi’s ancient text, revealing unexpected and profound intersections with the Christian faith. Written during an era of global philosophical awakening and political chaos—alongside the rise of Confucius, Socrates, and the Hebrew prophets—the Tao Te Ching (the Book of the Way and Virtue) speaks urgently to our own fractured world.
Dr. Kim masterfully demonstrates how the Tao Te Ching and the Christian Bible share a resonant core: both call humanity to seek a higher, transformative path. Where the Bible illuminates God’s way of holiness, justice, and mercy, Laozi points toward a life of harmony with nature and the cosmos. In Laozi’s assertion that the Tao (the Way) connects heaven and earth, readers will hear a striking echo of Jesus’s prayer that God’s will be realized on earth as it is in heaven.
Engaging with this ancient classic offers Christians a vital mirror for spiritual growth. This book will help you:
- Embrace Human Limitations: Find humility and peace by recognizing our boundaries.
- Reconnect with Creation: Deepen your commitment to ecological harmony and stewardship.
- Expand Your Theology: Broaden your understanding of the Divine and critically examine deeply held beliefs.
Thoughtful, interfaith, and deeply restorative, this volume is an essential guide for any Christian seeking to expand their spiritual horizons and rediscover the depth of the Way.
Paul's Theology of Atonement
What if the cross was not a required transaction for divine forgiveness, but the ultimate consequence of a faithful life?
In this groundbreaking study, Dr. Yung Suk Kim uncovers a radical, alternative understanding of atonement hidden within Paul’s undisputed letters. Moving away from traditional frameworks of vicarious suffering, substitutionary punishment, and guilt management, this book redefines humanity’s core problem not as legal debt, but as disobedience and unfaithfulness to God.
By carefully distinguishing Paul’s original theology from later New Testament writings, Kim argues that Jesus’s death was not a divine requirement for reconciliation, but the unavoidable result of his life-risking challenge to the wisdom of the world. True atonement, therefore, demands more than passive belief in a sacrifice—it requires active human participation in Jesus’s life, death, and enduring faithfulness.
Compelling and meticulously argued, this book invites readers to look beyond traditional dogma and rediscover a Pauline gospel centered on repentance, grace, and transformative, faithful living.
Unlock the subversive power of Jesus’s parables.
Jesus was a master storyteller whose parables did more than comfort—they challenged the status quo and disrupted the wisdom of the first-century world. In this insightful volume, Dr. Yung Suk Kim explores ten transformative lessons buried within these ancient, radical stories, offering a fresh lens for contemporary faith and action.
Ideal for serious Bible study in any setting—whether personal reflection, small groups, or academic classrooms—this book unpacks a decade of profound wisdom:
- Sow Abundantly: Scatter seed on the ground evenly and widely.
- Embrace Grace: Acknowledge God’s absolute sovereignty and unmerited grace.
- Navigate Complexity: Recognize and live with the coexistence of good and evil.
- Nurture the Hidden: See the immense importance of hidden potential.
- Value the Minor: Do not ignore or underestimate smallness.
- Practice Empathy: Learn to think deeply from the other person’s perspective.
- Resist Rivalry: Reject the cultural pressure to compete with others.
- Pursue the Ultimate: Search relentlessly for what is most valuable.
- Trust the Outcome: Boldly use your talent and leave the rest to God.
- Cultivate Stillness: Empty your ego and do not overfill your mind.
Rediscover the parables not as passive moral fables, but as urgent calls to a deeper, more faithful way of living.
POETRY
From Dust to Mystery
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-한국어 책들-
살아있는 고전을 성서학자의 시선으로
도덕경 명상집 (Google e-book )
시집
너는 먼지다
You are Dust (Poetry in Korean):
진리는 멀리 있는 것이 아니다
바로 우리가 느끼고 깨닫는 것에서 출발한다
그 중 가장 좋은 소재는 자연이다
1장: 물 / 강 / 바다
물은 세상에서 가장 좋은 것
강은 강이 흐르는 길이 있다
바다는 넓고 깊은 색이다
2장: 땅 / 먼지 / 바위
땅은 만고풍상의 세월을 견뎌
먼지는 세상의 작은 것
바위가 아름다운 것은
3장: 바람 / 하늘 / 해와 달
바람은 보이지 않아
하늘은 공평해
해와 달은 우리의 친구
4장: 꽃 / 숲 / 산과 계곡
꽃은 꽃이기에
숲이 살아가는 세상
산은 높아서 오르는 곳
계곡은 내려올 때 보인다
*부록 1: 시 해설과 명상
부록2: 도덕경 원문
시집
태초와 나, 그리고 삶과 죽음
나에게 시집은 세상과 소통하는 가장 자연스럽고 의미있는 통로이다. 이를 즐기고 아낀다. 시인이 전문은 아니지만 시를 사랑하고 시를 통하여 나의 이야기를 하고자 한다. “너는 먼지다”라는 시집은 도덕경에 바탕을 두고 썼으며 몇년 전에 출간하였다. 조금의 반응은 있었고 많이 고무되었다. 그걸로 한국시집은 처음이자 마지막이라 생각했다. 그런데 또 다른 작은 시집을 마련하게 되었다. 나도 모르게, 자연스레. 이 시집은 나의 지난 날의 학문여정을 반영하며 개인적인 관심사인 태초와 우주, 그리고 우리의 불안정한 삶과 죽음의 문제를 다룬다. 이것은 나의 불완전한 시이며 이야기이다. 여기에 실린 사상은 오직 나의 불완전함을 전제로 이야기한다. 나는 누구를 설득하거나 내 것이 맞다고 말하지 않는다. 독자는 이것을 읽음으로서 자기와의 대화를 하길 바라고 자기의 이야기를 담아내길 기대한다.
Reading online
다시 시작하는 성경공부:
예수의 비유 편
예수가 던진 진짜 질문을 찾아서
이 책은 예수의 비유를 역사와 문학 비평적으로 접근함과 동시에 현재의 삶의 정황을 동시에 다룬다. 비유는 예수의 가르침의 중요한 수단으로 당대의 문제점을 꼬집고 도전하는 이야기이다. 그것은 단순히 개인의 구원을 다루는 것이 아니다. 비유를 잘 이해하기위해서 그 당시 세계의 정치, 경제, 사회지식이 요구된다. 또, 비유해석의 다양한 방법론도 필요하다. 결국은 비유를 통하여 오늘을 재조명하는 것이 목적이다. 이 책은 새로운 성경공부용으로 개발되었다.
성경공부: 비유편 (paperback)