01UndatedTheological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.Namsoon Kang / quote ↗
02UndatedHow can one maintain a theological confidence in what one claims to be _true_ while acknowledging the existence of multiple religions that also claim to be _true_?Namsoon Kang / quote ↗
03UndatedCosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collectiveNamsoon Kang / quote ↗
04UndatedI believe _cosmopolitanism_ can be an effective discourse with which to advocate a politics of _transidentity_ of overlapping interests and heterogeneous or hybrid subjects in order to challenge conventional notions of exclusive belonging, identity and citizenship.Namsoon Kang / quote ↗
05UndatedReligion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_.Namsoon Kang / quote ↗
06UndatedThe politics of trans-identity seeks to move from the _politics of singular identity_ to the _politics of multiple solidarities_ across various identities without abandoning one's personal attachments and commitments to the group that one finds significant.Namsoon Kang / quote ↗
07Undated_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve?Namsoon Kang / quote ↗
08UndatedReligion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.Namsoon Kang / quote ↗
09Undatedthe overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.Namsoon Kang / quote ↗
10UndatedCosmopolitan discourse emphasizes the _cosmic belonging_ of all individual human beings as the ground of our hospitality, solidarity, justice and neighbor-love. Cosmopolitan discourse is about turning a _compassionate gaze_ onto others regardless of one's nationality and citizenship, origin of birth, religion, gender; race and ethnicity, sexuality, or abilityNamsoon Kang / quote ↗
11Undatedthe cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_.Namsoon Kang / quote ↗
12UndatedOne should regard one's religious or denominational affiliation as a point of departure, a point of entry, not the point of arrival because on cannot confine God to a particular religion or faith tradition, and therefore should not claim one's exclusive ownership of God. Regarding one's religious or denominational affiliation as _accidentality_; not as _inevitability_, is important in religious discourse and practice because such a sense of _accidentality_ of one's affiliation allows a space of _alterity_ of reciprocal contestation and challenge, and a space of planetary gaze that sees others as fellow human beings, _regardless_.Namsoon Kang / quote ↗
13UndatedTheological discourses function in various ways as sites of contestation and resistance, of forming new religious and personal identities, and of building solidarities. Theological discourses that theologians produce, disseminate, and teach in academia are not simply objective interpretations and neutral reflections on the world and the church in it. Instead theological discourses are productions of and for the world and the church that we live inNamsoon Kang / quote ↗
