{"id":50707,"date":"2022-08-31T14:54:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T18:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?post_type=profile&p=50707"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:47:03","slug":"peng-yin","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/peng-yin\/","title":{"rendered":"Peng Yin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peng Yin is a scholar of comparative religious ethics, Chinese Christianity, and religion and sexuality. His first book, Persisting in the Good: Thomas Aquinas and Early Chinese Ethics<\/em><\/a>, explores the intelligibility of moral language across religious traditions. He is currently working on a second book project tracing shifting conceptions of \u201cnature\u201d and \u201claw\u201d from Thomas Aquinas to Richard Hooker, Montesquieu, and early modern Chinese reformers. Tentatively entitled The Mutations of Natural Law<\/em>, the volume examines the political consequences of Thomistic natural law across the Pacific.<\/p>\n

His articles on method in comparative theology and comparative religious ethics, Confucian ethics, James Baldwin, and Confucian and Christian historiography of homoeroticism have appeared or are forthcoming in Modern Theology<\/em>, Journal of Religious Ethics<\/em>, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics<\/em>, and GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

At the University, Yin serves as Core Faculty in the Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and as Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Classical Studies, Global Medieval Studies, and the Center for the Study of Asia.<\/p>\n

Publications<\/h2>\n

Persisting in the Good: Thomas Aquinas and Early Chinese Ethics<\/em><\/a>. Oxford University Press, 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember Confucian Homoeroticism.\u201d GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies<\/em>, forthcoming.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Question of Political Legitimacy in Chinese Political Theology.\u201d In Political Theology in the Asia Pacific<\/em>, edited by Kwok Pui-Lan. Baylor University Press, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cJames Baldwin as a Preface for Christian Ethics.<\/a>\u201d Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics<\/em> 44, no. 1, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ignatian Tradition and the Intellectual Virtues of the Comparative Theologian<\/a>.\u201d In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Comparative Theology: A Festschrift in Honor of Francis X. Clooney, SJ<\/em>, edited by Axel Takacs and Joseph Kimmel. Wiley Blackwell, 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cMatteo Ricci\u2019s Legacy for Comparative Theology<\/a>.\u201d Modern Theology<\/em> 41, no. 3 (July 2022).<\/p>\n

\u201cVirtue and Hierarchy in Early Confucian Ethics<\/a>.\u201d Journal of Religious Ethics<\/em> 49, no. 4 (December 2021).<\/p>\n

\u201cChinese Protestantism and the Prospect of a Public Religion.\u201d In Brill Handbook for Contemporary Global Christianity<\/em>, edited by Stephen Hunt. Brill, 2015.<\/p>\n

Public Scholarship<\/h2>\n

\u201cPersisting in the Good<\/a>.\u201d Yale Chinese Theology Podcast<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cChinese Political Theology<\/a>.\u201d For the Life of the World Podcast<\/em>, Yale Center for Faith and Culture, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Love of Learning and Desire for God<\/a>.\u201d Focus<\/em>, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cWaiting for God\u2019s Own Time<\/a>.\u201d The Future of God: Reflections<\/em>, Yale Divinity School, Spring 2023.<\/p>\n

Recent Academic Presentations<\/h2>\n

\u201cThe Limits of Love in John Wu\u2019s Jurisprudence.\u201d Changing Discourse on \u201cLove\u201d in Chinese Christianity: Engaging Western Perspectives<\/em> International Workshop, Yale University, 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Uses of Comparative Religious Ethics.\u201d Comparative Religious Ethics Unit, American Academy of Religion, 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018One Nation under\u2026?\u2019 Nationalisms of the Religions of the World.\u201d Comparative Religious Ethics Unit and Schleiermacher Unit, American Academy of Religion, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond Theodicy: Spiritual Exercises in Moral Tragedy.\u201d Ethics Unit, American Academy of Religion, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cTranspacific Political Theology: Perspectives and Methods.\u201d Liberation Theologies Unit, American Academy of Religion, 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cChristianity: The Chinese Way.\u201d McDonald Faith and Global Engagement Distinguished Lecture Series, The University of Hong Kong, 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cChristianity and Queerness: Affinities and Their Political Implications.\u201d Gender Studies, School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong, 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Religious Origins of the New Cold War Discourse.\u201d China and the World: Historical Interactions<\/em> Series, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Prospect of Chinese Political Theology.\u201d Bartlett Lecture, Yale Divinity School, 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cQueer Unlearning: Queer Theology as Apophatic Theology.\u201d Christian Systematic Theology Unit, Gay Men and Religion Unit, and Queer Studies in Religion Unit, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Ricci, Epictetus, and Comparative Theology.\u201d Seminar on Matteo Ricci\u2019s Cultural Translation of Stoicism in Ming China, Campion Hall, University of Oxford, 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Intellectual Virtues of a Comparative Theologian.\u201d International Symposium of Jesuit Studies, Boston College, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"template":"","sth_faculty_type":[20],"sth_phd_student_type":[],"sth_staff_type":[],"sth_alumni_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/50707"}],"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\/50707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59851,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/50707\/revisions\/59851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sth_faculty_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_faculty_type?post=50707"},{"taxonomy":"sth_phd_student_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_phd_student_type?post=50707"},{"taxonomy":"sth_staff_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_staff_type?post=50707"},{"taxonomy":"sth_alumni_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_alumni_type?post=50707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}