{"id":44901,"date":"2021-01-21T12:35:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?post_type=profile&p=44901"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:46:15","slug":"g-sujin-pak","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/g-sujin-pak\/","title":{"rendered":"G. Sujin Pak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. G. Sujin Pak is an expert in the history of Christianity with a focus on the early modern period, the Protestant Reformation, and the history of biblical interpretation. She has taught courses on the history of Christianity, the Protestant reformers, the history of biblical interpretation, and medieval female mystics. As a teacher, Dr. Pak encourages her students to engage not only a variety of perspectives, but also the social contexts whence those perspectives emerged. Pak currently serves as the president of the Association of United Methodist Theological Schools, president of Wesley Works, and a member of the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) Board of Directors, the University Senate of the United Methodist Church, and on the executive board of the Calvin Studies Society.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read Dean Pak’s Welcome Letter<\/a><\/p>\n

Publications<\/h2>\n

\u201cCalvin Beyond Literal and Allegorical Readings: Calvin and Old Testament Metaphors,\u201d in The Old Testament, Calvin, and the Reformed Tradition. Ed. by Yudha Thianto. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. 10-32.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMarie Denti\u00e8re\u201d in Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation, Part IV: Reformation Bible Commentators. Ed. by Jennifer McNutt and Herman Selderhuis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 481-93.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Reformation of Prophecy: Early Modern Interpretations of the Prophet & Old Testament Prophecy<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.<\/p>\n

The Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth-Century Debates on the Messianic Psalms<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalvin\u2019s Visual Exegesis of Old Testament Prophecy: Figural Reading and the Sacramental Character of Scripture,\u201d International Journal of Systematic Theology<\/em>. 6 September 2022. Access at https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/ijst.12609<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cJohn Wesley and the Protestant Reformers on Scripture\u201d in Thy Grace Restore, Thy Work Revive: Revival, Reform, and Revolution in Global Methodism<\/em>: Essays from the 14th<\/sup> Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies<\/em>, edited by Sarah Heaner Lancaster. Nashville, TN: Wesley\u2019s Foundery Books, 2022. Pp. 16-29.<\/p>\n

\u201cKatharina Schutz Zell and Argula von Grumbach as Biblical Interpreters,\u201d in Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe: Profiles, Texts, & Contexts<\/em>, edited by Kirsi Stjerna. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2022. Pp. 243-54.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Protestant Reformers and the Analogia Fidei<\/em>,\u201d in The Medieval Luther<\/em>, edited by Christine Helmer. T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. Pp. 227-45.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalvin and Mysticism\u201d in Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe<\/em>, edited by Ronald K. Rittgers and Vincent Evener. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. 179-99.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Protestant Reformers and the Jews: Excavating the Contexts, Unearthing the Logic,\u201d Religions<\/em> 8(4), 72 (2017). Access at\u00a0 http:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2077-1444\/8\/4\/72\/htm<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThree Early Female Protestant Reformers\u2019 Appropriation of Prophecy as Interpretation of Scripture,\u201d Church History<\/em> 84.1 (2015): 90-123.<\/p>\n

\u201cRethinking Prophecy: The Functions of Prophecy in the Writings of Argula von Grumbach and Martin Luther,\u201d Reformation and Renaissance Review<\/em> 14.2 (2012): 151\u201369.<\/p>\n

\u201cContributions of Commentaries on the Minor Prophets to the Formation of Distinctive Lutheran and Reformed Confessional Identities,\u201d Church History & Religious Culture<\/em> 92.2 (2012): 237\u201360.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Break with Anti-Judaic Exegesis: John Calvin and the Unity of the Testaments,\u201d Calvin Theological Journal<\/em>46.1 (2011): 7\u201328.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"template":"","sth_faculty_type":[20,223],"sth_phd_student_type":[],"sth_staff_type":[],"sth_alumni_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/44901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/44901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59303,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/44901\/revisions\/59303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sth_faculty_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_faculty_type?post=44901"},{"taxonomy":"sth_phd_student_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_phd_student_type?post=44901"},{"taxonomy":"sth_staff_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_staff_type?post=44901"},{"taxonomy":"sth_alumni_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_alumni_type?post=44901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}