Yung Suk Kim
Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology
Virginia Union University
(2005 – present)
September 12, 2023
Forthcoming (book)
How to Read the Gospels: An Introduction (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Works in Progress:
Book:
2 Corinthians (Cascade, 2025: Contextual Critical Commentary series, edited by Jerry Sumney and Marvin Sweeney)
Edited book:
At the Intersection of Hermeneutics and Homiletics: Transgressive Readings for Transformational Preaching (Pickwick, 2025)
Articles:
“Racial Identity Hermeneutics,” in Handbook on Postconservative Theological Interpretation,
edited by Ronald T. Michener and Mark A. Lamport (Cascade, projected 2024).
“Ethnicity and Race: Gospel Differences,” in New Testament Ethics: Hermeneutics, Texts, and
Practice, edited by Emily J. Gathergood, Nicholas J. Moore, and Timothy J. Murray (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, projected 2024).
“Paul and Christology,” Christology in T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Theology, edited by Jane
Barter (T&T Clark: forthcoming 2024).
“The Church Trauma of Exclusivist Soteriology,” Sacrum Testamentum Vol. 5, Reflections on
Church Hurt (2025).
Future Book Projects:
-John’s Gospel and Ecology-The Bible and Mental Health
-Wisdom Literature and East Asian Philosophy
-Reinventing Paul: A Theology of the Cross
-What is Justice? Parables Through Political Philosophy
-Reinventing Paul: A Theology of the Cross
-What is Justice? Parables Through Political Philosophy
-Rethinking Jesus and Paul
-Interdisciplinary studies (Bible and mental health)
Energy/Strength:
-Intersectional studies (interpretation and preaching; spirituality and transformation)-Interdisciplinary studies (Bible and mental health)
.jpg)