Associate Professor of World Evangelism in the E. Stanley Jones Chair of World Evangelism

740-362-3367
jpark@mtso.edu
Werner 217


"My personal vision of teaching is based around the values and practices that I consider essential to students’ learning experience in the field of mission and evangelism: constructing a missional ecclesiology that is theologically grounded and contextually relevant; understanding and practicing evangelism as integral to the identity and calling of Christians and the community of faith; practicing hospitality that welcomes all across boundaries; and forming a spirituality that nurtures and sustains one’s ministry."

Education:


Ph.D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1991
M.Div., Asbury Theological Seminary, 1993
B.A., Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea, 1980


Areas of Expertise:

Missional Ecclesiology; Theology and Practice of Evangelism; Mission in Global Context; Multicultural Ministry; Spirituality for Ministry

Recently Published Works:

Missional Ecclesiologies in Creative Tension: H. Richard Niebuhr and John H. Yoder. American University Studies: Series VII, Theology and Religion. New York, Frankfurt/M., & Paris: Peter Lang, 2007.


“Minjung Theology.” In Dictionary of Mission Theology, edited by John Corrie. Nottingham, UK: InterVarsity Press, 2007.


“John Howard Yoder as a Mission Theologian.” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 30, no. 1 (January 2006): 14–17.


“Evangelism and the Practice of Hospitality.” In Considering the Great Commission: Evangelism and Mission in the Wesleyan Spirit, edited by Stephen Gunter. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2005.


Korean Translation of “Ecclesiologies in Creative Tension: The Church as Ethical and Missional Reality in H. Richard Niebuhr and John H. Yoder.” Mokhoe-wa Shinhak (Ministry and Theology) 193 (July 2005): 178–186.


“Issues in World Mission.” Quarterly Review 24, no. 1 (2005): 101–107.