Dr Alexander Chow
Senior Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity
- School of Divinity
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 8961
- Email: Alexander.Chow@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Blog
- Web: Academia.edu
Address
- Street
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New College
Mound Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH1 2LX
Background
Alexander Chow is an American-born Chinese who was raised in Southern California. He completed his PhD in theology at the University of Birmingham, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Renmin University of China, where he was doing research in Chinese Christianity and teaching in the School of Liberal Arts. Alex joined the University of Edinburgh in September 2013 and is an editor of Studies in World Christianity, an academic journal published through Edinburgh University Press.
Alex has written a number of articles on Christianity in China, and more broadly, in East Asia. He has written two books, Theosis, Sino-Christian Theology and the Second Chinese Enlightenment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013; Chinese edition: Institute of Sino-Christian Studies, 2015) and Chinese Public Theology: Generational Shifts and Confucian Imagination in Chinese Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Qualifications
MA ThM PhD FHEA
Responsibilities & affiliations
Editor, Studies in World Christianity (Edinburgh University Press)
Chair, Chinese Christianities Program Unit (American Academy of Religion)
Undergraduate teaching
- THET08014 Christian Theology: Approaches and Themes
- THET08017 Christian Theology: Doctrines and Debates
- THET10058 Theologies in Global Contexts
Postgraduate teaching
- WRCH11018 Selected Themes in the Study of World Christianity
- WRCH11019 Christianity in Asia, 1700 to the Present
- WRCH11020 Theologies of World Christianity
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Research summary
Alex's research interests mainly revolve around the following:
- Contextual theology (esp. in East Asia)
- Christianity in China
- Chinese philosophy and religion
- Public theology
Affiliated research centres
Research activities
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Chinese Public Theology : Generational Shifts and Confucian Imagination in Chinese Christianity
(240 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808695.001.0001
Book/Report types › Book (Published) -
Eschatology and World Christianity
In:
Studies in World Christianity, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 201-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2016.0156
Contribution To journal › Article (Published) -
Wang Weifan’s Cosmic Christ
In:
Modern Theology, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 384-396
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12260
Contribution To journal › Article (Published) -
成神論與天人合⼀ : 漢語基督教神學與中國第二次啟蒙
Book/Report types › Book (Published) -
Calvinist Public Theology in Urban China Today
In:
International Journal of Public Theology , vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 158-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341340
Contribution To journal › Article (Published) -
Theosis, Sino-Christian Theology and the Second Chinese Enlightenment : Heaven and Humanity in Unity
(248 pages)
Book/Report types › Book (Published)