Park Seong-won at the Uniting General Council, WCRC, Grand Rapids, 2010
World’s churches wrestle with the ancient system of caste-based discrimination
By Maurice Malanes (*)
Recounting stories such as the alleged forced poisoning of a young couple, speakers at the Global Ecumenical Conference on Justice for Dalits which opened in Bangkok, Thailand, on 21 March gave a face to the 3,500-year-old system of caste-based discrimination, detailing practices many would consider unthinkable in the 21st century.
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Finding an Answer to the Economic Crisis from Calvin
What would John Calvin who is regarded as one of the originators of Reformed theology present as a solution to our present economic crisis?
Professor Park, Seong-Won of Youngnam Theological Seminary and College who translated “Calvin and Social Humanism” stated,
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People: Seong-Won Park
The man who gave so much energy to facilitating the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) covenanting for justice process is leaving the Alliance this month after serving 15 years in two separate stints on the Geneva secretariat.
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In Chinese classic, there is a word saying "Be rich, you won't be humane (jen); be humane, you won't be rich."
If we rephrase this for a spiritual connotation, this word can be said as follows:
"Be rich, you won't be spiritual; be spiritual, you won't be rich."
This would mean that there would be a fundamental difficulty in connecting the state of being rich and the condition of being authentically humane, or being rich and being truly spiritual.
