“Jesus’ Tears: Messianic Hope and Liberation in the Korean Diaspora”

2024 McDonald Lecture 2

March 22, 2024

Hee-Soo Jung, resident bishop of the Wisconsin Episcopal Area of The United Methodist Church, is Candler’s 2023-2024 Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair on the Life and Teachings of Jesus and Their Impact on Culture. In this second of his two public lectures as McDonald Chair, Bishop Jung will discuss the basic tenets of Korean Christian spirituality and will survey the missionary presence and theological investigations among and through Korean diasporas in the global community. He will focus on YongDo Lee (1901–1933), a pioneer and Korean Christian mystic who believed that no other spirituality could exist without the desperate love for Christ. In this sense, Lee’s faith and theology can be defined as the mysticism of the suffering Christ. This event is sponsored by the McDonald Agape Foundation.