Francis Ching-wah Yip
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Francis Ching-wah Yip (Chinese: 葉菁華; born 1967){{Cite web|title=香港中文大學崇基學院神學院 Divinity School of Chung Chi College, CUHK|url=https://www.facebook.com/cuhktheology/posts/1905614446217293|access-date=2020-12-15|website=www.facebook.com|language=en}} is director and associate professor of divinity school of Chung Chi College (DSCCC), Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).{{Cite web|date=2016-10-18|title=葉菁華|url=https://www.theology.cuhk.edu.hk/tc/academics/teaching-staff/francis-ching-wah-yip|access-date=2020-12-15|website=香港中文大學崇基學院神學院|language=zh-hant}}
Biography
Yip attended in Christian primary schools and was active in student fellowship during high school. He obtained a Bachelor of Social Science, major in Journalism at the CUHK. Between 1992 and 1995, he studied M.Div. at the DSCCC. before receiving a scholarship to do a Th.D. at Harvard Divinity School and graduated in 2004. His Ph.D. thesis was then published as a monograph, named Capitalism as Religion? A Study of Paul Tillich's Interpretation of Modernity.{{Cite book|last=Yip, Francis Ching-Wah, 1967-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/314114066|title=Capitalism as religion? : a study of Paul Tillich's interpretation of modernity|date=2010|publisher=Harvard Divinity School|isbn=978-0-674-02147-1|location=Cambridge, Mass.|oclc=314114066}}
He joined the DSCCC in 2005 as assistant professor. In August 2020, he succeeded Ying Fuk-tsang as the Director of DSCCC. He was nicknamed as "Teacher Frog" by his students at DSCCC.{{Cite web|title=亂世中堅守合一精神 專訪崇基學院神學院新任院長葉菁華|url=https://christiantimes.org.hk/Common/Reader/News/ShowNews.jsp?Nid=163606&Pid=2&Version=1729&Cid=2194&Charset=big5_hkscs|access-date=2020-12-15|website=christiantimes.org.hk}}
Works
- {{cite book|last=Yip|first=Francis Ching-Wah|title=Capitalism as Religion? A Study of Paul Tillich's Interpretation of Modernity|location=Cambridge, MA|publisher=Harvard Theological Studies|year=2010|isbn=9780674021471}}
- {{Cite book|last=|first=|title=The Hong Kong Protests and Political Theology|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2021|isbn=9781538148716|editor-last=Kwok|editor-first=Pui-lan|editor-link=Kwok Pui-lan|location=|pages=|editor-last2=Yip|editor-first2=Francis Ching-Wah|editor2-link=Francis Ching-wah Yip}}
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