Dr. kiem le

Academic Degrees & Education

• Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Intercultural Studies

• Ph.D.

• Fuller Theological Seminary

• Th.M.

• M.Div.

• University of Minnesota

• B.A. in Journalism and English

Academic Appointments & Experience

• Kairos University

• Adjunct Professor of New Testament and Global Studies

• Azusa Pacific University

• Professor of Global Studies and Director of the Los Angeles Term

• Missiology: An International Review

• Editor for Books Received and Book Reviews

• Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California

• Lecturer in Global Studies

• World Mission University

• Professor of Intercultural Studies and Associate Dean

• Fuller Theological Seminary

• Adjunct Instructor

• Reformed Presbyterian Seminary

• Instructor of Theology

Awards

• Faculty Development Creative Teaching Grant

• Azusa Pacific University, February 2007

• Service Learning Mini Grant

• Azusa Pacific University for incorporating service learning in “Intercultural Communication,” January 21, 1997

• Azusa Pacific University for incorporating service learning in “Human Diversity,” December 3, 1997

• Theology Award

• School of Intercultural Studies, for dissertation, Fuller Theological Seminary, May 24, 1995

Affiliations

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Publications & Presentations

• “Fool’s Gold: Paul’s Inverted Approach to Church Hierarchy (1 Corinthians 4), with Emerging Church Implications,” Missiology: An International Review, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, July 2007, pp. 287-303.

• “Dynamics in Hellenism and the Immigrant Congregation,” in Mission in Acts: Ancient Narratives in Contemporary Context (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2004), pp. 73-86.

• “The Magical Mystery Tour: Philip Encounters Magic and Materialism in Samaria,” in Mission in Acts: Ancient Narratives in Contemporary Context (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2004), pp. 103-113.

• “Introduction: Background in Acts,” co-written with Robert L. Gallagher, in Mission in Acts: Ancient Narratives in Contemporary Context (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2004), pp. 1-17.

• “Transforming Theological Education through Experiential Learning in Urban Contexts,” Mission Studies (October 2002), Vol. XIX, pp. 56-76.

• “The Great Commission Revisited: The Role of God’s Reign in Disciple Making,” Missiology: An International Review, Vol. 29 (July 2001), pp. 343-353.

• “Re-Positioning Center and Margin in Church and Society,” Journal of Asian Mission, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2001.

• “Redemption and Lift,” in Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000), pp. 811-812.

• “Geographical Marginality in the Matthean Journeys of Jesus,” Society of Biblical Literature 1999 Seminar Papers, No. 38, pp. 472-489.

• “The Embrace of Marginality and Liminality in Matthew’s Gospel,” Proceedings from the Central States Regional Meeting of SBL/ASOR, Vol. 2 (Spring 1999), pp. 53-59.

• “The Jubilee Mission of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke: Reversals of Fortunes,” Missiology: An International Review, Vol. 26 (April 1998), pp. 167-179.

• “The Multi-ethnic Journeys of Jesus in Matthew: Margin-Center Dynamics,” Missiology: An International Review, Vol. 26 (January 1998), pp. 23-35.

• “Galilean Christianity,” in Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1997), pp. 385-388.

• “The Galilee Theme in Matthew: Transforming Mission through Marginality,” Missiology: An International Review, Vol. 25 (April 1997), pp. 157-163.

• “The Privilege of Marginality,” The Korean Christian Journal, July 28, 1996, p. 12.

Books

• Co-editor, Landmark Essays in Mission and World Christianity (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2009).

• Co-editor, Mission in Acts: Ancient Narratives in Contemporary Context (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2004); second, third, and fourth printings: 2006-2007.

• Matthew’s Narrative Use of Galilee in the Multicultural and Missiological Journeys of Jesus (Mellen Biblical Press, 1998).