“ I 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 conve… Namsoon Kang
“ Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective Namsoon Kang
“ How 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
“ I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect. Namsoon Kang
“ The question is not, therefore, _whether_ a theory is grand or small, or whether it is universal/global or particular/local, but _what function_ a theory plays and _whose interest_ it serves. Namsoon Kang
“ Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way. Namsoon Kang
“ I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one's profound existence in the world. Namsoon Kang
“ The time and space in which I have been working on this cosmopolitan project have convinced me that the disparity between the ideal of cosmopolitan theology and the current sociopolitical configuratio… Namsoon Kang
“ Cosmopolitan theology affirms and radicalizes the belief that the Divine creates each and every human being as equal to every one else as a _citizen-of-the-cosmos and that no one is either superior or… Namsoon Kang
“ Cosmopolitanism is a radical affirmation of the idea of neighbor/enemy-love-as-self love...Cosmopolitanism is about a cosmic scope of justice and hospitality––another name for _love_. Namsoon Kang
“ Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people Namsoon Kang
“ What does it mean to be human, to continue to live as human, to remain _faithful_ to the Divine while living in a cultural, sociogeopoltical, and religious world where power disparity between/among hu… Namsoon Kang
“ Cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and multiple solidarities that one can see in Jes… Namsoon Kang
“ Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal. Namsoon Kang
“ Cosmopolitanism promotes a sense of new _we-ness as regarding every individual human being as a citizen of the cosmos. However, the _we-cosmic-citizens_ are not to promote the _we-ness-in-sameness_, b… Namsoon Kang
