Dr. KWOK, Wai Luen
Position
Associate Professor

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Tel
3411-7326

Room
CEC 1005

ORCID
0000-0002-6865-070X

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Teaching
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Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts
Associate Director, Centre for Sino-Christian Studies
Recipient of President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching, 2018
Langham Scholarship Recipient
2/2018-1/2020, President, The Society for the Study of the History of Christianity in China
9/2016-present, Advisor, Hong Kong Organ Transplant Foundation
11/2013-present, Member of the board of directors, Christian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture, Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11/2012-present, Member of the Church History and Archive Committee of the Hong Kong Chinese Christian Churches Union
6/2009-6/2019, Member of the Theological and Current Affairs Committee of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church Union of Hong Kong
9/2008-present, Member of the board of directors, Langham Foundation, Hong Kong

Degree:
M.Soc.Sc., City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
M.Div., Alliance Bible Seminary, Hong Kong
Th.M., Alliance Bible Seminary, Hong Kong
Ph.D., King’s College London, U.K.

Work Experience:
Alliance Bible Seminary, Hong Kong
China Graduate School of Theology, Hong Kong


Courses Taught: GFVM 1046 The Meaning of Love, Sex and Body
RELI2006 Introduction to Christianity and Civilizations
RELI 2015 Approaches to the Study of Religion
RELI 3026 Christianity, Humanism and the Contemporary World
RELI 3126 Theology, Liberalism and Sex in Chinese Societies
RELI 4025 Christianity and Chinese Culture
RELI 7010 Graduate Seminar
RELI 7071 Research Postgraduate Seminars
RELI 7080 RPG Research Methodology Seminar in Religion and Philosophy

Teaching Areas: Christian Theology
Theology and Humanism
Christianity and Chinese Culture
Religious Charities in China
Theology of Sex
Research Methods


Research Areas: Chinese Christianity; Christian Doctrine; Public Theology; Theological Hermeneutics

Current Projects: Religious discourse, social participation, and identity construction of Hong Kong Protestant Christians from 1970 to 1997: An oral and documentary history
The concept of social justice in the periodicals of foreign religions in China, 1911-1949: Protestant Christianity and Islam

Selected Outputs: “The Narrative and the Triune Reality in the Theology of Robert Jenson: A Post-Karl Barth’s Development.” Yearbook of Chinese Theology 5 (2019): 3-27.
“Theology of Religions and Intertextuality: A Case Study of Christian–Confucian and Islamic–Confucian Dialogue in the Early 20th-Century China.” Religions 10.7 (July 2019): 417. (Scopus and A&HCI Indexed Journal)
“Seeking justice in the midst of war: The experience of war for Chinese Christians as revealed in The True Light Review, 1937–1941.” Studies in WorldChristianity 24.3 (Dec. 2018): 234-254. (Scopus and A&HCI Indexed Journal)
“Christ-human and Jia Yuming’s Doctrine of Sanctification.” In Zheng Yangwen, ed. Sinicizing Christianity, pp. 109-136. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
“Narrative therapy, theology, and relational openness: Reconstructing the connection between postmodern therapy and traditional theology.” Journal of Psychology and Theology 44.3 (Fall 2016): 201-212. (Scopus, A&HCI and SSCI Indexed Journal)

Selected Conference Presentations: Keynote speech: “Spirituality of Desire and Body Theology,” 2019 Fellowship of Theologians, Organized by Taiwan Graduate School of Theology, 6-7 December 2019.https://www.tgst.edu.tw/p/405-1001-4148,c393.php
Invited presentation: “‘Going Forth to Teach, We Shall Have Learnt’: The Case of F. S. Drake at Shantung Christian University/Cheeloo University,” Retrospect and Prospect: The International Symposium on Thirty Years’ Research on History of Christian Colleges in China, Co-organized by Harvard-Yenching Institute, College of History and Culture, Shandong University, and College of Liberal Arts, Shanghai University, 11-14 October 2019.https://harvard-yenching.org/sites/default/files/uploaded-documents/Retrospect%20and%20Prospect_Thirty%20Years%20Research%20on%20the%20History%20of%20Christian%20Colleges%20in%20China.pdf
Invited presentation: “Sinicization, Christianity, and Religious Policy since 2012: A Political Theology Reflection,” The Montagu Barker Lecture Series of TheOxford Centre for Mission Studies, 14 May 2019.
Invited presentation: “The Chinese Church and Its Mission,” In Dialogue with Jürgen Moltmann—Hong Kong Expert Forum, Organized by Institute of Sino-Christian Studies and Divinity School of Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 23 April 2018.
-https://www.theology.cuhk.edu.hk/en/moltmann2018

Selected Research Grants: Digital Scholarship Grant, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2018-19.Project Title: “Digital Oral and Documentary History Database for the Social Participation of Hong Kong Protestant Christians from 1970 to 1997”. (HKD100,000)
General Research Fund, Research Grant Council, HKSAR Government. 2017-19.Project Title: “Religious discourse, social participation, and identity construction of Hong Kong Protestant Christians from 1970 to 1997: An oral and documentary history” (HKD406,964)
General Research Fund, Research Grant Council, HKSAR Government. 2015-17.Project Title: “The concept of social justice in the periodicals of foreign religions in China, 1911-1949: Protestant Christianity and Islam” (HKD264,400)
Donation from Tin Ka Ping Foundation on Whole Person Education (HKD1,000,000)

Knowledge Transfer Activities / Projects: Peace-building workshops. Collaborated with Cedar Fund, Hong Kong, 2019-present
Christian Social Innovation and Social Enterprises. Collaborated with Fullness Social Enterprises Society, 2014-present