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Name
Rev. Dr. Jooseop Keum
Title
Distinguished Professor of World Christianity, Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary, Director of the Korea Institute for Future Ecumenism, and General Secretary-Elect, Council for World Mission
Bio
PANELIST - In addition to his leadership at PUTS and KIFE, Rev. Dr. Jooseop Keum also teaches as guest professor at Yonsei University and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He served as director of Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) of World Council of Churches based in Geneva, Switzerland, from 2007-2018. During the period, he also served as the editor of International Review of Mission (IRM), which is the oldest international missiological journal incepted by the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh 1910. He is the main editor of the new WCC mission statement, Together towards Life: Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes and director of the World Mission Conference in 2018, Arusha Tanzania.
He received a BA and MDiv at PUTS, and a MTh and PhD from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh. The title of his thesis is Remnants and renewal: A History of Protestant Christianity in North Korea, with Special Reference to Issues of Church and State, 1945-1994. Dr Keum was awarded Honorary Doctor of Reformed Theology at the Reformed University of Debrecen in Hungary and Honorary Doctor of Orthodox Theology at the University of Sibiu in Romania. Before WCC, Dr Keum served Council for World Mission (former London Missionary Society) as the executive secretary of Mission Programme from 2003-2007. Dr Keum’s main focus of research is ecumenical understanding and practice of mission in the context of world Christianity.
He is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of Korea. He has recently appointed as general secretary of the Council for World Mission, former London Missionary Society.
He received a BA and MDiv at PUTS, and a MTh and PhD from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh. The title of his thesis is Remnants and renewal: A History of Protestant Christianity in North Korea, with Special Reference to Issues of Church and State, 1945-1994. Dr Keum was awarded Honorary Doctor of Reformed Theology at the Reformed University of Debrecen in Hungary and Honorary Doctor of Orthodox Theology at the University of Sibiu in Romania. Before WCC, Dr Keum served Council for World Mission (former London Missionary Society) as the executive secretary of Mission Programme from 2003-2007. Dr Keum’s main focus of research is ecumenical understanding and practice of mission in the context of world Christianity.
He is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of Korea. He has recently appointed as general secretary of the Council for World Mission, former London Missionary Society.
