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In this helpful book, Boyung Lee offers an encouraging vision of the mainline church's future. Lee grapples with some of the greatest challenges facing the mainline church, offering compelling responses to recurring questions: What does faithfulness to the gospel look like in this changing world? What is our distinctive voice in the larger society? How does theological education have to change if it is to serve the needs of a new century?Lee argues that the church's future is a promising one if the church can offer a richer and deeper definition of community--one that moves beyond the excessive individualism of western culture and that helps mainline Christians understand their solidarity with one another and with all of God's people. Lee further explores the crucial role of faith formation at the congregational and seminary levels. More than mere schooling, theological education must engage all aspects of educators' and students' lives to prepare seminarians for the challenges that lie ahead.While not dismissing the mainline church's challenges, Lee offers congregational leaders and seminary educators a vision of a church transformed for the 21st century.

Demonstrating the significant impact of Asian and Asian American feminist theologians on reshaping theological education and ministerial practice, this single, essential volume brings together four decades of theological leadership, wisdom, and imagination .Crossing Shores and Horizons examines the development and influence of Asian and Asian American transnational feminist theologies over the past four decades through the work of Pacific, Asian, and North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry (PANAAWTM), founded in 1984. Bringing together voices spanning generations, disciplines, and practices, this book provides a comprehensive look at the contributions of Asian and Asian American feminist theologians, faith leaders, and activists.By combining historical reflection, critical analysis, and imaginative theological insight, this volume demonstrates how Asian and Asian American feminist theologians have reshaped theological education, knowledge production, and pastoral practice. As readers move through each of the book’s four sections, they will find contributions that challenge colonial, patriarchal, and racialized paradigms while offering pathways toward healing, solidarity, and community renewal.The book begins with a section titled “Trailblazers of Transformation,” which presents oral histories with PANAAWTM’s founding members, including Gale Yee, Kwok Pui-lan, and Rita Nakashima Brock, among others, highlighting the formation of frameworks and mentorship for future scholars. The next section, “Collective Healing and Communal Wisdom,” features chapters that apply transnational feminist theologies to community and global concerns, including intergenerational trauma and ecological devastation. The “Reimagining Theological Discourses” section then explores creative, interdisciplinary approaches to transnational feminist theologies through art, literature, and Christian theological reflection. The final section, “Weaving New Worlds,” focuses on emerging directions, including engagement with public life, peacemaking, and interreligious dialogue.This intergenerational, multidisciplinary, and multimodal collection serves as a resource for professors, pastors, chaplains, activists, and faith leaders, providing insight into both the origins and future trajectories of Asian and Asian American transnational feminist theologies. Crossing Shores and Horizons offers a rich encounter with voices that have transformed the theological landscape and continue to inspire collective imagination for scholarship and ministry.

In this helpful book, Boyung Lee offers an encouraging vision of the mainline church''s future. Lee grapples with some of the greatest challenges facing the mainline church, offering compelling responses to recurring questions: What does faithfulness to the gospel look like in this changing world? What is our distinctive voice in the larger society? How does theological education have to change if it is to serve the needs of a new century?

Lee argues that the church''s future is a promising one if the church can offer a richer and deeper definition of community--one that moves beyond the excessive individualism of western culture and that helps mainline Christians understand their solidarity with one another and with all of God''s people. Lee further explores the crucial role of faith formation at the congregational and seminary levels. More than mere schooling, theological education must engage all aspects of educators'' and students'' lives to prepare seminarians for the challenges that lie ahead.

While not dismissing the mainline church''s challenges, Lee offers congregational leaders and seminary educators a vision of a church transformed for the 21st century.

At a moment of notably rising levels of anti-Asian hate, this book offers antiracist resources informed by Asian/North American feminist theology and biblical scholarship. Although there exist scholarly books and articles on Asian American theology (broadly defined) have proliferated in response to the current ethical, political, and cultural environment have been prolific, there have been few concerted efforts to interrogate or dismantle anti-Asian racism inseparable from anti-black racism, and white settler colonialism that have often undermined the communal spirit and livelihood of Christian churches in the current political climate. In the current political climate, COVID-related anti-Asian hate and racial conflict, which all intersect with gender and sexuality-based violence, require theological, moral, and political inquiries. Hence, this book notes the current paucity of work with critical discussions on the multiple facets of racism from Asian American feminist theological perspectives. Contributors deepen the inter/transdisciplinary approaches concerning how to dismantle racist theological teachings, biblical interpretations, liturgical presentations, and the Christian church’s leadership structure.