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Partnerships Programs: IASACT
IASACT
The United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia set up the Institute for Advanced Study in Asian Cultures and Theologies (IASACT) in 2001 to identify, support, and coordinate programs that will strengthen a Christian presence in academic communities in Asia.
The purpose of IASACT is to provide space and time for Asian Christian scholars to undertake research and writing in the broad area of Asian Cultures and Theologies.
In providing these opportunities for research and writing, IASACT hopes to:
• Strengthen theological education in Asian Christian universities and colleges;
• Enable scholars to work together on an intra-Asian dialogue in theological discourse;
• Encourage cross-disciplinary as well as cross-religious discussions;
• Engage North American theological educators to join Asian
Christian scholars for inter-contextual theological explorations. In the first
instance, this will be with the Graduate Theological Union (GTU), Berkeley,
California, USA.
If anything, IASACT has succeeded
in replenishing nineteen more of what theologian David Suh had envisioned as
“inspired scholars,” “passionate artists,” and “committed intellectuals,” who
have returned home to “give breath” to their respective communities
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