Anglican Studies by Michael Poon
Michael Nai-Chiu Poon is director and Asian Christianity research coordinator of
the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia, Trinity Theological College,
and canon of Saint Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore. He is a member of the
Inter-Anglican Standing Commission for Unity, Faith and Order, and an Anglican member on the
Anglican - Roman Catholic International Commission. He is editor of the
CSCA
Christianity in Southeast Asia Series, the
CSCA Historical Reprints, and the
CSCA Occasional Paper Series. He chairs the
documentation study group (DABOH) of the International Association for Mission
Studies since 2005. From 2011, he is a board member of
The Living Church
Foundation.
His main interests are in promoting a more
expansive understanding of world Christianity and in offering support for
Christians in East Asia to interpret themselves. At present he directs the
TTC
Handbook on Popular Spiritual Movements in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia
publication project.
He was born in Hong Kong and
received education in the University of British Columbia (B.Sc.1975, M.Sc.1977), Wycliffe College, Toronto (M.Div.1977), and Balliol College,
Oxford University (D.Phil.1984), In 1999 he received the Medal for
Professional Merit from the Macao Government for contribution in education. Michael Poon
is an Anglican priest, and served in Anglican churches
in Hong Kong and Macao from 1984 to 2004. From 1998 to 2004, he was general
secretary of the Missionary Area of Macao. He moved to Singapore in June 2004. From 2006-2008, he served as convener of
the Global South Anglican Theological Formation and Education Task Force that
produced the report Anglican Catechism in Outline: A Common Home
Between Us. He was
John A. Mackay Professor of World Christianity in Princeton Theological
Seminary in 2011.
Publications since 2004:
- Mission, Memory and Communion: Documenting World Christianity in the
Twenty-First Century, ed. Michael Poon, Marek Rostkowski and John Roxborogh.
Singapore: Trinity Theological College, 2013.
- "Nation Building and Tradition Making: Christian Imaginations Among Young
Singaporeans in the 1970s." Trinity Theological Journal 20 (2012): 1-23.
- Religion and the Building of a Harmonious Society in Singapore, CSCA
Occasional Paper No. 10. Singapore: Trinity Theological College, 2012.
- Foreword to A Study of a Thaumaturgical Movement in Singapore: The
Christian Charismatic Renewal, by Lana Yiu-Lan Khong, 1-5. Singapore:
Trinity Theological College, 2012.
- "Recovering a Sense of Place." The Living Church, 22 April 2012,
9-11.
- "Christian Revivals and the Re-Imagining of Time and Space." In Robert M.
Solomon, Understanding Christian Revivals, ed. Michael Poon, 1-13.
Singapore: Trinity Theological College, 2012.
- The Clock Tower Story: The Beginnings of Charismatic Renewals in
Singapore, CSCA Occasional Paper No. 8. Ed. Michael Poon and Malcolm Tan,
revised edition. Singapore: Trinity Theological College, 2012.
- "Loh I-to as Bridge-Builder: Communication and Communion in the Asia
Pacific." In Loh I-to, In Search for Asian Sounds and Symbols in Worship,
ed. Michael Poon, 4-16. Singapore: Trinity Theological College, 2012.
- "Confessing the Faith in Asia Today: Shoki Coe and the Rise of Asia Pacific
Rim Christianity." In Shoki Coe, Christian Mission and the Test of
Discipleship: The Princeton Lectures, 1970, ed. Michael Poon, 8-20. Singapore: Trinity Theological College, 2012.
- "Rebooting Anglican Communication." The Living
Church, 20 November, 2011, 12-14.
- “Valuable Cargo.” Review of The Word in Small
Boats: Sermons from Oxford, by Oliver O’Donovan. The Living Church, 23 October 2011, 12-13.
- "Menafsir Warisan John Sung Di Asia Tenggara." In Menerobos Batas – Merobohkan Prasangka,
vol. 1, edited by Paul Budi Kleden
and Robert Mirsel,
343-362. Maumere: Penerbit Ledalero, 2011.
- "Andrew F. Walls and Documenting World Christianity." In Understanding
World Christianity: The Vision and Work of Andrew F. Walls, edited by
William Burrows, Mark Gornik and Janice McLean, 169-192.New York: Orbis, 2011.
- John Sung in Indonesia, CSCA Historical Reprints No. 2,
Introduced and Edited by Michael Nai-Chiu Poon. Singapore: Trinity
Theological College, 2011.
- John Sung, My Testimony, CSCA Historical Reprints No. 1. Translated by
Ernest Tipson, Introduced and Edited by Michael Nai-Chiu Poon.
Singapore: Trinity Theological College, 2011.
- The Clock Tower Story: The Beginnings of Charismatic Renewals in
Singapore, CSCA Occasional Paper No. 8. Ed. Michael Poon and Malcolm
Tan. Singapore: Trinity Theological College, 2011.
- "Re-imagining
World Christianity for the Church Universal" (lecture presented as John A.
McKay Professor of World Christianity at the history department of Princeton
Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, 21 March 2011).
-
"On Volatile Grounds: A History of Church Partnerships in Asia." In
Church Partnerships in Asia: A Singapore Conversation, ed. Michael
Poon, 21-50. Singapore:
Trinity Theological College,
2011.
-
"Into Deeper Levels of Communion: Apostles' Passion, Martyrs' Depth." In
Church Partnerships in Asia: A Singapore Conversation, ed. Michael
Poon, 213-221. Singapore:
Trinity Theological College,
2011.
- "Andrew Walls’ Legacy: Documenting World Christianity in the
Twenty-First Century." Trinity Theological Journal 18 (2010): 1-25.
- "Theological Education for the Whole Church: Pastors Who Connect," The
Living Church, 18 April 2010, 9-10.
- "Anglican Theological Education in East Asia: An Overview." In Anglican Theological Education in Southeast Asia,
ed. Michael Poon, 3-21. CSCA Occasional Paper No. 7.
Singapore: Trinity Theological College, 2010.
- "Clerical Formationin the Diocese of Singapore." In Anglican Theological Education in Southeast Asia,
ed. Michael Poon, 46-75. CSCA Occasional Paper No. 7.
Singapore: Trinity Theological College, 2010.
- "The Association for Theological Education in South East Asia, 1959-2002: A
Pilgrimage in Theological Education." In
Supporting Asian Christianity’s
Transition from Mission to Church, edited by Samuel Pearson, 363-402, 417-431.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.
-
"The Theological Locus of Christian Movements in Southeast Asia." In
Christian Movements in Southeast Asia: A Theological Exploration,
ed. Michael Poon, ix-xxxv. Singapore:
Trinity Theological College, 2010.
- "The History and Development of Theological Education in South East Asia." In
Handbook of Theological Education in World Christianity, edited by Dietrich
Werner, 375-403. Oxford: Regnum, 2010.
- Protestants in Nineteenth Century Macao. An Anthology. Edited by B.J. Lofland and Michael Nai-Chiu Poon. Macao: Instituto Cultural, 2009.
- "Anglican Clerical Formation in South East Asia: Structured for Mission in the
21st Century?" Trinity Theological Journal 16 (2008): 92-118.
- "Mission Is Anti-Theoretical: Listening and the Disclosing of the Primal
Vision." In
The Anglican Communion and Homosexuality, edited by Philip Groves,
35-45. London: SPCK, 2008.
- "Patristic Theology." In
Global Dictionary of Theology, edited by William
Dryness. Downers Grove: IVP, 2008.
- "Review on Reconstructing Christianity in China: K. H. Ting and the Chinese
Church." International Bulletin of Missionary Research 32, no. 3 (2008):
164-165.
- "Theological Education and Nation Building: Seminary Teachers and Librarians as
Partners in Mission in Southeast Asia." Trinity Theological Journal 14 (2006):
124-139.
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"Christian Social Responsibilities in East Asia." In
Pilgrims and Citizens: Christian Social Engagement in East Asia Today,
ed. Michael Poon, 93-108. Hindmarsh:
ATF Press, 2006.
- "Review on Stephen Bevans and Roger Schroeder's Constants in Context: A Theology
of Mission for Today." Mission Studies 22, no. 1 (2005): 139-144.
- "Reflections on the Identity of the Church in Asia: An Ecumenical Conversation."
Trinity Theological Journal 13 (2005): 1-26.
- "Orthodoxy, Apologetics and Discipleship in the Anglican Communion."
Transformation 21, no. 1 (2004): 25-30.
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