TRS2902      Religions, Peace and Peacemaking 

TRS3312      Christian understanding of God

TRS3402      Political Theology

TRS3412      Christian Worship

Member of the Student Staff Academic Committee

Research Champion

In addition to my Leeds Trinity responsibilities, I am working as Research Coordinator for Edinburgh 2010, which has a polycentric research process on Christian mission encompassing all Christian traditions in all regions of the world.

My current interests are:

Shifts in theology of mission, 1910-2010

Internationalization of Christian theology and its teaching

Korean Christian theologies

Theology of the Holy Spirit

Publications

Monographs

Sebastian Kim and Kirsteen Kim (forthcoming in 2012) A History of Korean Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Kirsteen Kim (2010) Joining in with the Spirit: Connecting world church and local mission. Peterborough: Epworth Publishing (supported by a grant from Methodist Formation in World Mission)

Edited works

Daryl Balia and Kirsteen Kim (eds) (2010), Edinburgh 2010: Witnessing to Christ Today. Oxford: Regnum

Kirsteen Kim (ed.) (2005) Reconciling mission: the ministry of healing and reconciliation in the church worldwide. Delhi: ISPCK (supported by a grant from the World Council of Churches)

Pamphlets and short books

Kirsteen Kim (2007) ‘Concepts of development in Christian traditions’. Birmingham: Religions and Development Project, University of Birmingham

Chapters in books

Kirsteen Kim (forthcoming in 2011) ‘Afterword from the perspective of world Christianity’, in Paul M Collins & Barry Ensign-George (eds), ‘Denomination’: between the church local and universal.

(forthcoming in 2010) ‘Theologies of religious pluralism: pneumatological foundations and conversion in India’, in Amos Yong & Clifton Clarke (eds), Religious pluralism and the Great Commission.

(forthcoming in 2010) ‘Gender issues in intercultural theological perspective’, in Mark J. Cartledge & David Cheetham (eds), Intercultural theology: a primer. London: SCM Press

(2009), ‘The Holy Spirit and spirituality’ in J. Ayodeji Adewuya (ed.), SPCK International Study Guide to Corinthians (London: SPCK), 94-98

Articles in journals

Kirsteen Kim (forthcoming in 2010) ‘Mission theology of the church’, International Review of Mission

(forthcoming in 2010) ‘Christianity’s role in the modernization and revitalization of Korean society in the twentieth-century’, International Journal of Public Theology

(2009) ‘Case study: How will we know when the Holy Spirit comes?’ Evangelical Review of Theology 33/1 (Jan), pp. 93-96

Conference contributions and guest lectures

2010

Colloquist at the Poullart Libermann Award in Pneumatology, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA, 17 Sep

'Edinburgh 1910-2010: From mission to world Christianity?’ United Reformed Church Annual History Lecture, Leeds, 11 Sep

‘Edinburgh 1910 and Edinburgh 2010: Different theological worldviews?’ guest lecture at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, 27 Jul

‘The past, present and future of Korean theology: Pneumatological perspectives', keynote lecture at the conference on ‘Asian Culture and Christian theology’, Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary, Seoul, South Korea, 11-12 May

‘Doing theology and ministry in a globalized world’, guest workshop with Sebastian C.H. Kim, Cumbria Theological Society, 24 Apr

‘Korean missionaries: Protestant churches and their global vision, 1987-92’, public lecture at the Korean Cultural Centre, London, 31 Mar

‘Theologies of religious pluralism: pneumatological foundations and conversion in India’, plenary guest presentation, Regent University, Virginia Beach, USA, 27 Feb

‘Edinburgh 1910 and Edinburgh 2010: Different Theological Worldviews?’ guest seminar paper at the Henry Martyn Centre, Cambridge, 27 Jan

2009

‘Mission theology’, guest presentation to the annual meeting of the Meissen Commission (CofE and EKD), Whalley Abbey, Blackburn, 17-21 Sep

‘Mission in Aufwind – Perspektiven aus Kirche, Theologie und ökumenische Netzwerken’, panel discussion at conference of Deutsche Gessellschaft für Missionswissenschaft, Evangelische Akademie, Loccum, Germany, 14-16 Sep.

Kirsteen Kim is a member of:

British and Irish Association for Mission Studies (Chair 2003-2007)

International Association for Mission Studies

World Council of Churches’ Commission for World Mission and Evangelism -Vice-moderator, 2006 – 2013

Mission Theological Advisory Group for the Church of England and Churches Together in Britain and Ireland

British Association for Korean Studies

Society for the Study of Theology

Lausanne Theology Working Group