"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
"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..."
"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."
"Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way."
"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."
"I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect."
"Cosmopolitanism has offered me an ethical perspective and a conceptual framework with which to read the _signs of our times_ as a theologian and intellectual who has a public responsibility for consta..."
"Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity."
"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_?"
"Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective"