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Sung-Deuk Oak

Dongsoon Im and Mija Im Scholar
Assistant Professor in Korean Christianity

Department: Asian Languages and Cultures

231B Royce Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540
Campus mailcode: 154003
Tel: (310) 794-9650 / (310)825-3284
Fax: (310) 825-8808
oak@humnet.ucla.edu

Keywords: Christianity, History, Korea


Education

  • Th. D., Boston University School of Theology, History of Christianity, 2002
  • Th. M., Princeton Theological Seminary, History of Christianity, 1994
  • Th. M. & M. Div. Presbyterian Theological Seminary, History of Christianity, 1993, 1991
  • B. A. & B. A., Seoul National University, Korean History, 1988; English Literature, 1986.

Publications

Selected Books, including co-authored

  • Hanbando Taebuhŭng [Pictorial History of the Great Revivals in Korea, 1900-1910]. Seoul: Hongsungsa, 2009.
  • Horace Grant Underwood and Lillias H. Underwood Papers. 5 vols. Seoul: Yonsei University Press, 2005-2009.
  • Historical Documents of the Korean Bible Society. 3 vols. Seoul: Korean Bible Society, 2005-2009.
  • Sources of Korean Christianity, 1832-1945. Seoul: Institute for Korean Church History, 2004.
  • Taehan Sŏngsŏgonhoe Sa [History of the Korean Bible Society]. 2 vols. Seoul: Korean Bible Society, 1993, 1995.

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Edinburgh 1910, Fulfillment Theory, and Missionaries in China and Korea,” Journal of Asian and Asian American Theology IX (2009): 29-51.
  • “Hanil Happang Chŏnhu Ch’oe Pyŏnghŏn Moksa ŭi Yŏksaŭisik Pyŏnhwa” [From Enlightenment to Eschatology: Rev. Ch’oe Pyŏnghŏn’s Understanding of the Times in His Sermons in 1913] in T’aksa Ch’oe Pyŏnghŏn Moksa ŭi Saengae wa Sinhak (Seoul: Chŏngdong Trilingual Press, 2008).
  •  “Miguk Hanin Kaesingyohoe ŭi Sahoejŏk Ch’aegim,” [The Korean American Churches and Civic Responsibility] Han’guk Kidokkyo wa Yŏksa 29 (Sept. 2008): 165-190.
  • “Rethinking the 1907 Great Revival Movement,” International Journal of Christian Studies V-1 (June 2008): 125-165.
  • “Ch’ogi Han’guk Kaesin’gyo Yebaedang ŭi Paljŏn gwa T’ŭksŏng, 1895-1912” [Spatial Characteristics of the Early Protestant Church Buildings in Korea]” Tongbang Hakchi 141 (March 2008): 267-321.
  • “Christian Encounter with Ancestor Worship in Korea,” in Pyon Muyoung et als. Korean Religions and Ancestral Rites (Tokyo: Iwata Shoin, 2008), 199-251.