ABSTRACT

In 1970, when Park Andrew Sung was a sophomore in college, a group of students went to a country church for a week to help its vacation Bible school. That experience led him to read Christian mystical writings. Thomas a Kempis, Sadhu Sundar Singh, and Emmanuel Swedenborg were his favorite mystics. Indebted to these mystics, Sung continue to love to explore other mystics and have taught on Christian mystics throughout his teaching at Claremont School of Theology and United Theological Seminary. As a student at Claremont, Sung old male-centered views began to disintegrate. At Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, Sung studied liberation theology/North American liberation theology under Robert McAfee Brown. In 1998, Rosemary Radford Ruether invited several theologians, including Sung, to participate in the jubilee celebration of Palestinians. Sung teach his students to focus on the han or suffering of their congregants for weekly preaching.