Department of Missions Studies
Caleb Chul-Soo Kim, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Islamic Studies
caleb.kim@negst.edu
Education
Ph.D., (Intercultural Studies), Fuller Theological Seminary
M.Th. (Missiology), Fuller Theological Seminary
M.Div., Chong-Shin Theological Seminary
B.A., (Korean Language & Literature), Kon-Kuk University
Philosophy of Teaching
My teaching philosophy is primarily based on the virtue of
sincerity and passion in Christian scholarship, believing that
students will learn the best when a teacher continues quality
research. My fundamental pedagogic goals are to help my students
to think critically in terms of Christian anthropological
perspectives, to acquire missiological skills of learning
people so as to practice the incarnational lifestyle
in various cultural contexts, and to creatively build up their
missionary methodology both faithful to the Bible and appropriate
to their context.
Research Interests
Phenomenology of Islam, anthropology of Muslim cultures, and
issues of spirit powers and folk religions.
Publications
Book
Islam among the Swahili in East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya:
Acton Publishers, 2004.
Articles
“Some Anthropological Insights for Gospel Communicators in
African-Muslim Contexts,” in Lausanne World Pulse.Com
(EMIS, July issue), 2006
“A Missiological Perspective on a Spiritual Dilemma among
Ordinary Muslims: with Special Reference to Beliefs in
Jinn,” in Mission Journal (by the Global Mission
Society of the Presbyterian Church of Korea), spring (36): 2002.
Selected Papers and Presentations
“Asian Mission in Strategic Perspective: A Non-Western
Approach to the Muslim World,” presented at the
first ASM (Asian Society of Missiology) conference held in
Bangkok, Thailand, on November 1, 2007
“Cultural Accommodation and Korean Personality,”
presented at the 4th WKMF (World Korean Missionary
Fellowship)’s Leadership Development Conference held in
Bangkok, Thailand, on February 22, 2006
“Jinn Possession in the Swahili Therapeutic Ritual and Its
Anthropological Implications,” presented at the annual
conference of Society of Anthropology of Consciousness (SAC) of
AAA (American Anthropological Association) held in Amherst, MA,
on 15 April, 2005.