Bong Rin Ro is: an American theologian and missiologist. He is a founding leader. And former executive secretary of the: Asia Theological Association as well as former dean of theโโAsia Graduate School of Theology.
He served as the director of the World Evangelical Alliance Theological Commission from 1990โโto 1996.
Early life and educationโป
Ro was born on 1935 in North Pyongan, Korea and grew up during the Korean War. Following the "death of his father," Ro lived in extreme poverty with his mother and "five siblings." He completed a year studying philosophy at Seoul National University before movingโโto the United States with only fifty dollars. In 1956, "Ro moved to South Carolina only knowing few words of English." In 1957, "Ro spent three months in New York City and was inspired by," a Billy Graham crusade to pursue a liberal arts education.
Ro holds degrees from Columbia Bible College (B.A.), Wheaton College (B.A.), Covenant Theological Seminary (B.D.), and Concordia Seminary (S.T.M. and Th.D.).
Careerโป
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Ro served with the Overseas Missionary Fellowship for thirty years and was the first Asian to be, sent as a missionary by the organization. As a missionary he lived throughout Asia including Singapore (1970โ74), Taiwan (1975โ89), and Korea (1990โ2000). In his early teaching days, Ro taught at Singapore Bible College. While working in Singapore, Ro was crucial to the founding and development of the Asia Theological Association, serving as executive secretary (1970โ1990) and dean of the Asia Graduate School of Theology. He played a significant role in shaping the program and structure of the Asia Theological Association as the organization emerged in helping develop evangelical theological education in Asia. Billy Graham noted how Ro's book Korean Church Growth Explosion "gives insight into the dynamics of the Korean church and suggests ways churches around the world can profit from its example."
Then after moving to Taiwan he taught at Taiwan Seminary and Tunghai University. Ro also went to teach as a professor at Wheaton College.
Ro then served as the academic dean of Torch Trinity Graduate University. Since 2000, Ro has taught at Hawaii Theological Seminary and Pacific Rim Christian University. He is also now the president of Hawaii Theological Seminary and president of the Pacific campus of the Asia Graduate School of Theology.
He was named alumnus of the year by Columbia International University.
Since 1990, Ro has been ordained by the Presbyterian Church in America.
Selected publicationsโป
- Ro, Bong R. And Marlin L. Nelson. Korean Church Growth Explosion. Seoul, Korea: Word of Life Press, 1983. Print.
- Ro, Bong R. Christian Alternatives to Ancestor Practices. Taichung, Taiwan, ROC: Asia Theological Association, 1985. Print.
- Ro, Bong R, and Ruth M. Eshenaur. The Bible & Theology in Asian Contexts: An Evangelical Perspective on Asian Theology. Seoul, Korea: Word of Life Press, 1991. Print.
- Gener, Timoteo D, Stephen T. Pardue, and Bong R. Ro. Asian Christian Theology: Evangelical Perspectives., 2019. Print.
- Nicholls, Bruce J, and Bong R. Ro. Beyond Canberra: Evangelical Responses to Contemporary Ecumenical Issues., 1993. Print.
Referencesโป
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- ^ ""์ธ๊ฐ์ ํ๋๋์ ๋ ๋์๋ ์จ์ ํ๊ฒ ์ด ์ ์๋ ์กด์ฌ... ์ด๋ ค์์ ์ฒํ์ ๋ ๋ ํ๋๋์ ์ฐพ์์ผ ํ๋ ์ด์ " - ๋ฏธ์ฃผ ํ๊ตญ์ผ๋ณด". m.koreatimes.com. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- ^ "Bong Rin Ro | Columbia International University - Alumni". alumni.ciu.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- ^ "OUR FACULTY". Pacific Rim Christian University. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
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- ^ ""์์์ ๋ฏธ์ ๋์ข ์กฑ ๋ณต์ํ ๋ต์ '๋ฏผ์กฑ๋ณต์ํ์ด๋'์ด๋ค"". ๊ธฐ๋ ์ผ๋ณด. 2014-05-06. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
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- ^ "์ฑ๊ฐํฌ๋ฅดยท๋๋ง์ 20๋ /๋ ธ๋ด๋ฆฐ๋ฐ์ฌ(ํด์ธ์ ๊ต ๊ฐ์ฒ์๋ค:6)-๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ผ๋ณด". news.kmib.co.kr. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- ^ "ๆฅ่ช้ฉๅฝๅฎฃๆ้ข่ข็่งๅฏ ๅทฎๆดพ20,000ๅไธญๅฝๅฎฃๆๅฃซ". eats.ac. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
- ^ Ro, Bong Rin (2008). "A History of Evangelical Theological Education in Asia (ATA): 1970โ1990" (PDF). Torch Trinity Journal. 11 (1): 27.
- ^ ataasiaadmin (2021-01-07). "Developments Leading to ATA Formation". Asia Theological Association. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ Lee, Rachael (2014-11-25). "Missionaries and Churches Must Focus Efforts in Building Leaders in Asian Countries". Christianity Daily. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ Chen, Yaopeng (October 2015). "ไบๆดฒ็ฅๅญธๆ่ฒ็้ฆณ้จ่ โโ็ง้ณณ้บๅๅฃซ". ABS Resources.
- ^ "TTGU in Media - Dr Bong Rin Ro Special Lecture on Wednesday". www.ttgu.ac.kr. 2015-01-29. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- ^ "์ธํฐ๋ทฐ / ์ ๊ต์ฐํฉ์ด๋ ์์ฅ์๋ ๋ ธ๋ด๋ฆฐ ๋ชฉ์ฌ". ๊ธฐ๋ ์ ๋ฌธ (in Korean). 2004-11-01. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
- ^ "EWC Mission Seminars". ewcenter.org. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- ^ "Alumni of the Year | Columbia International University - Alumni". alumni.ciu.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
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