{"id":34673,"date":"2019-01-24T10:22:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T10:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/?p=34673"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:16:42","slug":"rev-dr-edmund-fong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/about\/faculty\/rev-dr-edmund-fong\/","title":{"rendered":"\u909d\u76ca\u6587\u7267\u5e08 (\u535a\u58eb)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; disabled_on=&#8221;on|on|on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|0px|0|0px|false|false&#8221; disabled=&#8221;on&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_fullwidth_header title=&#8221;OUR LEADERSHIP&#8221; subhead=&#8221;AND ADMINISTRATION&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Fullwidth Header &#8211; Our Leadership and Administration&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; title_font=&#8221;Prompt|||on|||||&#8221; title_font_size=&#8221;40px&#8221; subhead_font=&#8221;Prompt||||||||&#8221; subhead_font_size=&#8221;40px&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TTC-Header-AboutTTC.jpg&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=&#8221;off&#8221; button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=&#8221;off&#8221; button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=&#8221;off&#8221; button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=&#8221;off&#8221; button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=&#8221;off&#8221; button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=&#8221;off&#8221; button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=&#8221;off&#8221; button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=&#8221;off&#8221; button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=&#8221;off&#8221; button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=&#8221;off&#8221; button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=&#8221;off&#8221; button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=&#8221;off&#8221; button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled=&#8221;off&#8221; button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled=&#8221;off&#8221;][\/et_pb_fullwidth_header][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0|0px|18px|0px|false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_team_member name=&#8221;\u909d\u76ca\u6587\u7267\u5e08 (\u535a\u58eb)&#8221; image_url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/EF-Cropped-Comp.jpg&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Person &#8211; Rev Dr Edmund Fong&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; body_line_height=&#8221;1em&#8221; border_width_bottom=&#8221;1px&#8221; border_color_bottom=&#8221;#f4e7d2&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"textbox\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u5b66\u5386<\/strong>\uff1a<br \/>BEng Hons., Civil Engineering (National University of Singapore)<br \/>BTh (Moore Theological College, Sydney, Australia)<br \/>\u795e\u5b66\u7855\u58eb (\u65b0\u52a0\u5761\u4e09\u4e00\u795e\u5b66\u9662)<br \/>\u795e\u5b66\u535a\u58eb\uff08\u65b0\u897f\u5170\u5965\u5854\u54e5\u5927\u5b66\uff09<\/p>\n<p class=\"textbox\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u5b97\u6d3e<\/strong>\uff1a\u957f\u8001\u4f1a<\/p>\n<p class=\"textbox\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u5b66\u79d1<\/strong>\uff1a\u795e\u5b66\uff08\u82f1\u6587\u90e8\uff09<\/p>\n<p class=\"textbox\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u7814\u7a76\u5174\u8da3<\/strong>\uff1a<br \/>Theological Hermeneutics, in particular the Hermeneutics of Doctrine; General areas of Doctrine, in particular the doctrine of the Atonement; Biblical Theology and its role in the hermeneutical process; Biblical Interpretation and its wider engagement with philosophical hermeneutics, and the theology of Karl Barth<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/about-ttc\/faculty\/email-rev-dr-edmund-fong\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #58595c; font-size: 16px;\">\u8054\u7edc<\/span><span style=\"color: #db4e16; font-size: 26px; font-weight: Normal; vertical-align: middle; padding-left: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/wp-content\/themes\/extra-child\/images\/next_arrow.png\" alt=\"More\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text &#8211; Biography, Published Works&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h5>\u7b80\u4ecb<\/h5>\n<p>Rev Dr Edmund Fong is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church in Singapore. Before joining full-time paid Christian ministry, Edmund worked as an engineer with the Public Utilities Board. After graduating with his basic theological degree from Moore Theological College in Sydney, Edmund&#8217;s desire to serve God as a theological educator led to him doing a Masters of Theology with TTC and doctoral studies with the University of Otago, New Zealand, where Edmund worked on the notion of the obedience of Jesus Christ as understood within the theology of the Swiss-German theologian, Karl Barth. Edmund joined TTC as a faculty member in January 2017. Edmund is married to Mei Ying, and they have three teenagers\u2014Phoebe, Chloe, and Jonathan. Together, they worship at Adam Road Presbyterian Church, where Edmund remains as an Associate Minister.<\/p>\n<h5>\u51fa\u7248\u4f5c\u54c1<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Thesis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cObedience that Saves: A Dogmatic Inquiry into the Obedience of Jesus Christ in Karl Barth\u2019s Doctrine of Reconciliation as shown in his Church Dogmatics\u201c, PhD Thesis, University of Otago, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edmund Fong, <a href=\"https:\/\/solamedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/THEO_TheCrownofCreation_Vol2_FULLBOOK_FINAL_SinglePages.pdf?vcrmeid=ZpKTt07ps0amW8RvblEH8w&amp;vcrmiid=yoxZ6ybUpUGoI1SjHXZ0Mg\">\u201c\u2018To Be Created Imago Dei Is to Be Created Imago Christi\u2019: A Christological Reading of the Imago Dei,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in <em>Theo Global Journal, Vol. II: The Crown of Creation: Humanity, The Image of God, and the Fall<\/em>, ed. Adam P. Smith (San Diego: Sola Media, 2025), 49\u201369,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Edmund Fong, \u201cLord of His \u2018Loving and Living\u2019: Reading Karl Barth&#8217;s Notion of the Divine Self-Determination,\u201d <em>International Journal of Systematic Theology<\/em>\u00a027, no. 3 (2025): 351\u2013371, DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/ijst.12751\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/ijst.12751<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fong, Edmund. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ajt.atesea.net\/ajt\/article\/view\/115\/125\">On Religious Liberty and Secularism in Plural Societies<\/a>.\u201d <em>Asia Journal of Theology<\/em>\u00a038, no. 2 (October 2024): 209\u201328.<\/p>\n<p>Fong, Edmund.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/journals\/ijpt\/18\/2\/article-p246_7.xml\">\u201c\u2018Obligatory Relegation\u2019, \u2018Willing Translation\u2019, or \u2018Unreserved Declaration\u2019? The Place of Religious Ideas in Public Square Deliberation.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<em>International Journal of Public Theology<\/em>\u00a018, no. 2 (May 2024): 246\u201365.<\/p>\n<p>Fong, Edmund.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsis.edu.sg\/rsis-publication\/rsis\/faith-and-needs-a-view-from-the-christian-protestant-church\/\">\u201cFaith and Needs: A View from the Christian (Protestant) Church.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<em>RSIS Publications (Commentaries)<\/em>, May 24, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8217;What is Man that You are Mindful of Him?&#8217;: Biblical Anthropology.\u201d In <em>What is Man?<\/em>, Ethos Institute Engagement Series, 5-24. Singapore: Sower Publishing Centre, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8217;We Can&#8217;t Go Over It; We Can&#8217;t Go Under It; Oh No! We&#8217;ve Got to Go Through It!&#8217;: Karl Barth&#8217;s Doctrine of the Trinity in Modern Theology.\u201d In\u00a0<em>The Triune God<\/em>, Ethos Institute Engagement Series, 17-34. Singapore: Sower Publishing Centre, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Edmund Fong, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/ijst.12566\">Akratic Action and John Calvin\u2019s Understanding of Adam\u2019s Prelapsarian Free Choice<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0<em>International Journal of Systematic Theology<\/em>\u00a024, no. 4 (2022): 527\u2013547<\/p>\n<p>Edmund Fong, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/themelios\/article\/gender-dysphoria-and-the-body-soul-relationship\/\">Gender Dysphoria and the Body-Soul Relationship<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0<em>Themelios<\/em>\u00a047, no. 2 (2022): 348\u2013365<\/p>\n<p>Review of\u00a0<em>The Trinity and the Religions<\/em>, by Tan Loe-Joo,\u00a0<em>Asia Journal of Theology<\/em>\u00a034, no. 1 (2020): 131-35.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSharing the Gospel with those in Same-Sex Relationships.\u201d In\u00a0<em>Homosexuality, the Bible and the Church<\/em>, edited by Rev Dr Keith Lai, Rev Terry Kee and Rev Dr Ngoei Foong Nghian, 197-216. Singapore: NCCS, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ttc.academia.edu\/EdmundFong\">\u2018Mutually Beneficial to our Reading of Scripture\u2019: How Biblical Theology and Theological Hermeneutics Benefit Each Other<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018The One and the Many\u201d: Pondering the Hermeneutics of the Doctrine of the Atonement from the \u201cReception of Doctrine\u201d\u2019 Approach, Journal of Theological Interpretation 12.1 (2018), pp. 127\u2013148.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cJustification and the Granting of Honour: The Relationship between the two via the Atonement and Union with Christ.\u201d Paper presented at <em>Theo Global South Asia,<\/em>\u00a0from 2 to 4 Feb 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe God Who Unites Us with His Son Through His Spirit.\u201d Paper presented at <em>Theo Global Southeast Asia<\/em>, from 29 to 31 Jan 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018One Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God\u2026begotten of the Father before all ages\u2019: \u00a0Robert Jenson\u2019s reading of the pre-existence of Christ.\u201d\u00a0Paper presented at The Creedal Spirit Conference held at St Mellitus College, London, on 30 Apr to 1 May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Fong, Edmund. \u201cGod\u2019s \u2018Self-Determination\u2019 or God\u2019s \u2018Self-Actualization\u2019? A Comparison of Karl Barth\u2019s and Wolfhart Pannenberg\u2019s \u2018Actualistic Ontology\u2019.\u201d Paper presented at the \u201cWolfhart Pannenberg and Divine Action\u201d International Conference, T\u00fcbingen, Germany, April 25 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018The One and the Many\u201d: Pondering the Hermeneutics of the Doctrine of the Atonement from the \u201cReception of Doctrine\u201d\u2019 Approach, Journal of Theological Interpretation 12.1 (2018), pp. 127\u2013148.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018For Us and In Our Place\u2019: The Doctrine of the Atonement in Engagement with the \u2018Reception of Doctrine\u2019 Approach.\u201d Paper presented at The Australian and New Zealand Association of Theological Schools Ltd (ANZATS) Conference, University of Melbourne, 4 July 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDivine Obedience and Trinitarian Ontology: The Implications of Karl Barth\u2019s Notion of the Obedience of the Eternal Son for his Doctrine of the Trinity.\u201d Paper presented at the University of Otago Theology and Religion Department Seminar Series, 21 August 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Conceptus de Spiritu Sancto\u2018: Karl Barth on the work of the Holy Spirit in the life, ministry and mission of the Incarnate Son.\u201d Paper presented at the 2015 Tyndale Fellowship Christian Doctrine Study Group on \u201cThe Spirit and Spirituality in Theological and Missionary Perspective\u201d at Tyndale House, Cambridge, 1\u20133 July 2015.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5b66\u5386\uff1aBEng Hons., Civil Engineering (National University of Singapore)BTh (Moore Theological College, Sydney, Australia)\u795e\u5b66\u7855\u58eb (\u65b0\u52a0\u5761\u4e09\u4e00\u795e\u5b66\u9662)\u795e\u5b66\u535a\u58eb\uff08\u65b0\u897f\u5170\u5965\u5854\u54e5\u5927\u5b66\uff09 \u5b97\u6d3e\uff1a\u957f\u8001\u4f1a \u5b66\u79d1\uff1a\u795e\u5b66\uff08\u82f1\u6587\u90e8\uff09 \u7814\u7a76\u5174\u8da3\uff1aTheological Hermeneutics, in particular the Hermeneutics of Doctrine; General areas of Doctrine, in particular the doctrine of the Atonement; Biblical Theology and its role in the hermeneutical process; Biblical Interpretation and its wider engagement with philosophical hermeneutics, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34673"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43232,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34673\/revisions\/43232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttc.edu.sg\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}