Helix-SOTE Conference 2023

Contextual Issues of

Honor & Shame

Honor

&

Shame

in Spiritual Formation

The event is held onsite with live streaming.

11¨C13 September
10 am ¨C 12 pm (GMT+8:00)
Singapore Bible College

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Join us for an exchange of reflections and insights as a group of 10 theologians, biblical scholars, and missiologists from around the world come together to explore the role of honor and shame in spiritual formation through the lens of contextualization processes, and how the gospel transforms culture. The presentation centers around the Pacific Rim but considers input from other regions as well.

Rev. Dr. Hwa Yung

Bishop Emeritus
Methodist Church in Malaysia

Speaker's Bio

Dr. Justin Joon Lee

Associate Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology
Singapore Bible College

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Ms. Claire Chong

Research and Training Associate
Singapore Centre for Global Missions

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Dr. Christopher Flanders

Professor
Abilene Christian University¡¯s
Graduate School of Theology

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Rev. Dr. Jerry Hwang

Associate Professor of Theology?
Trinity Christian College, Illinois, USA.

Speaker's Bio

Dr. Narry Santos

Associate Professor of Christian Ministry and Intercultural Leadership
Tyndale University, Toronto

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Rev. Dr. Samuel Law

Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies
Singapore Bible College

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Dr. Kiem-Kiok Kwa

Adjunct Lecturer
Intercultural Studies

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Mr. Rei Crizaldo

Lead, Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA)

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Mr. Kenosi Molato

Lecturer (Systematic Theology and Research Methodologies)
Christ Baptist Seminary, South Africa

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Monday, 11 Sep

  • Introduction Rev. Dr. Hwa Yung
  • Contextualization: Current State in Southeast Asia Dr. Justin Joon Lee
  • Case Study in Southeast Asia Ms. Claire Chong

Tuesday, 12 Sep

Honor and Shame in Scripture

  • Issues surrounding honor/shame, guilt/innocence, etc. Dr. Christopher Flanders
  • Case Study ¨C Old Testament Rev. Dr. Jerry Hwang
  • Case Study ¨C New Testament Dr. Narry Santos

Wednesday, 13 Sep

Honor and Shame Transformation

  • The Dynamic Dimensions of Honor-Shame Rev. Dr. Samuel Law
  • Case Study ¨C Asia Dr. Kiem-Kiok Kwa
  • Case Study ¨C Philippines Mr. Rei Crizaldo
  • Case Study - Africa Mr. Kenosi Molato

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Hwa Yung is a Bishop Emeritus of the Methodist Church in Malaysia. He has served as a pastor, Principal of the Malaysia Theological Seminary and also taught in Trinity Theological College, Singapore. From 2004-2012 he was the Bishop of the Methodist Church in Malaysia. Formerly, he had also served as the Chair for the Trustees Council of the Oxford Centre for the Mission Studies, a member of the International Board of the Lausanne Movement, and President of IFES (2011-2019). He has authored several books and numerous papers and articles in the fields of mission and Asian Christianity.

Dr. Justin Lee has been at Singapore Bible College since 2019. He is a Korean-American, born and raised in the Los Angeles area. Though originally trained in Patristics, Justin is also deeply interested in contextual theology and mission, particularly Asian theology and Asian church history. He is currently working on a series of articles on the topic of theological methodology in Asia.

Claire Chong and her husband Dr Kevin Lowe lived in Cambodia and Myanmar for 15 years and established self-sustaining churches and businesses. She is presently a Research and Training Associate with the Singapore Centre for Global Missions, an innovation catalyst with ¡®Christ in Theravada Worlds t.co.lab¡¯ of Frontier Ventures, an affiliate faculty member at Fuller Theological Seminary, and serves in the leadership team of WEA Mission Commission. Claire is also a PhD candidate with the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, UK, researching on the use of a Buddhist epistemological approach in studying Cambodian ritual and religion.

Professor with Abilene Christian University¡¯s Graduate School of Theology (Department of Bible, Missions and Ministry).

Book Publications include

  • Flanders, C. L. (Ed.). (2020). Honor, Shame, and the Gospel Reframing Our Message for Twenty-First Century Ministry (C. L. Flanders, Ed.; p. 207). William Carey Press.
  • Flanders, C. L. (2019). Devoted to Christ: Essays in Honor of Sherwood Lingenfelter (p. 177). Wipf and Stock Publishers.

Book Chapter Publications include

  • Flanders, C. L. (published). Becoming God¡¯s Clients: Patronage, Clientelism, and Christian Conversion in Contemporary Thailand. In Festschrift in Honor of Ian Fair. Gorgias Press.
  • Flanders, C. L. (2019). There is No Such Thing as “Honor” or “Honor Cultures”- A Missiological Reflection on Social Honor. In Devoted to Christ: Missiological Reflections in Honor of Sherwood Lingenfelter (pp. 145¨C165).

To read more about Dr. Christopher Flanders, please visit here.?

Jerry Hwang (PhD, Wheaton College) is Associate Professor of Theology at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois (USA). Prior to this, he served for 13.5 years as a faculty member and academic dean at Singapore Bible College. In addition to fifty articles, essays, and reviews, his books include a monograph on Deuteronomy (Eisenbrauns, 2012), a Hosea commentary (Zondervan, 2021), a Jeremiah commentary (Crossway, 2022), Contextualization and the Old Testament: Between Asian and Western Perspectives (ATA/Langham, 2022), and Exploring the Old Testament in Asia: Evangelical Perspectives (co-edited with Angukali Rotokha; ATA/Langham, 2022).

Narry F. Santos is Associate Professor of Christian Ministry and Intercultural Leadership at the seminary of Tyndale University in Toronto, part-time Senior Pastor of Greenhills Christian Fellowship (GCF) Peel and GCF York in Canada, and Vice President of the Evangelical Missiological Society Canada. His PhDs are in New Testament (Dallas Theological Seminary, 1994) and in Philippine Studies (University of the Philippines, 2006). He wrote several books, including Family Relations in the Gospel of Mark, Slave of All, and Turning our Shame into Honor. He also edited mission compendiums and contributed chapters in diaspora books and biblical articles in academic journals.

Dr. Samuel Law is Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies at Singapore Bible College and the Pastor-at-Large for the Evangelical Chinese Church of Seattle (WA, USA ¨C www.eccseattle.org ). He is the author of more than 30 abstracts, articles, and chapters in the areas of missiology and biomedical engineering, authoring one book and co-editing another. He is a member of the American Society of Missiology, the Evangelical Missiological Society, the International Association for Mission Studies, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

View Dr Law¡¯s profile on Academia.edu

Kwa Kiem-Kiok has been teaching in seminaries in Singapore for the past 15 years in the area of mission, including Asian theology, contextualisation, and ethics. Interested in a variety of topics, she has published on subjects including spirituality, justice, and food. Currently in between teaching positions, she will be a scholar in residence at Asbury Theological Seminary for about 5 weeks in October 2023, researching particularly the areas of public theology. She is a Local Preacher in her home church Trinity Methodist Church.

Rei Lemuel Crizaldo leads the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) and the theological education network in East and Southeast Asia of Tearfund UK. His recent academic publications include chapters from a decolonial theology perspective in the following volumes: Missio Dei in a Digital Age (SCM Press, 2020), Theologies and Practices of Inclusion (SCM Press, 2021), God¡¯s Heart for Children: Practical Theology from Global Perspectives (Langham, 2022), and Faith and Politics: Evangelical Political Theology in Philippine Settings (forthcoming Langham, 2023). His book Boring Ba Ang Bible Mo? (Is Your Bible Boring?) won the Filipino Reader¡¯s Choice award.

Kenosi Molato is a young scholar from the Northwest district in Botswana. Having grown up in the swamps of the Okavango delta, Kenosi Molato loves the beauty of the delta and the cultures of the river people of Botswana. His passion is to write about eco-theology, history of Batawana, Pentecostalism and honour/shame. He obtained Masters of Arts in theology and Religious Studies at the university of Botswana in 2017. He is a PhD student at South African Theological Seminary focusing on the dialectic between Anselm¡¯s satisfactory model of Atonement and African cultural values of honour and Shame. He is a lecturer at Christ Baptist Seminary in Polokwane, South Africa teaching systematic theology and research methodologies.