Dr. Heejun Yang is an assistant professor in religion, ethics, and philosophy at Greensboro College and an adjunct professor at Hampton University. He received his B.Th. from Methodist Theological University in Seoul, South Korea, and holds an M.Div. and a Th.M. from Duke University. He studied under Ingolf Dalferth as his last doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University and the University of Münster, where he earned his Ph.D. in philosophy of religion. He is the author of several academic/public articles and two books: Trinitarian Responses to Worldliness: Toward a Trinitarian Theology of Inculturation (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2022) and Asian Case Studies on Translating Christianity: Toward God’s Self-Communication and the Trinitarian End of Asian Theology (Lexington Books, 2024). He also has taught religion and theology at High Point University and Duke Divinity School. He served local churches as a Methodist pastor in the NC Conference of the United Methodist Church. He earned more than $64,000 in grants for his last three-year local church missions. His academic interests cover philosophy of religion, systematic theology, hermeneutical theology, trinitarian theology, Protestant theology, Wesleyan/Methodist theology, 19-20th century continental philosophy, post-Barthian theology, philosophy of language, Eastern religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Shamanism), comparative theology, Korean religion, world Christianity, Asian/Asian American theology, liberation theology, racial/ethnic studies, theology of (im)migration, and many others.
