Hyo-Dong Lee

Assistant  Professor of Theological Philosophy

About

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

M.Div., United Theological College (Montreal, Canada)

B.A., B.Th., M.A., McGill University

B.A., Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea)

Professor Lee’s teaching and research interests lie in the area broadly defined as theology of religions and comparative theology, and more specifically, dialogue between the Christian/Western theological tradition and Northeast Asian religious thought, including Confucianism Daoism, Tonghak, etc. His interests extend also to postcolonial theories and European postmodern thought.

Publications

“Interreligious Dialogue as a Politics of Recognition: A Postcolonial Re-reading of Hegel for Interreligious Solidarity.” The Journal of Religion 85, no. 45 (2005).

Presentations:

“The Mythical Vision of a Disillusioned Marxist?: Miyazaki Hayao’s Princess Mononoke in Dialogue with the ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment’” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Denver, CO; November, 2001.

“A Liberating Ecology of the Other: A Hegelian Aufhebung of Levinas for Non-Human  Others,”  International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Penn State University,  University Park, PA; October, 2000.

“A Liberating Ecology of the Other: A Critical Retrieval of Emmanuel Levinas for  Twenty-First  Century Theology,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston, MA; November, 1999.

Courses

Tao and Logos (ThePh 355)

Decolonizing Theology (ThePh 718)

Contact

E-mail: hlee5@drew.edu

Office: Seminary Hall 05A

Phone:             973-408-3129

Fax: 973-408-3534