Story and Method: Suh Nam-Dong,C.S. Song and the Making of Story Theology in Asia

Suh Nam-Dong and the more well-known Choan-Seng Song are the doyens of Story Theology in Asia. The vision of history as a confluence of two traditions, the Korean and Christian minjung traditions, proclaimed by Suh and the use of story as an alternative access to history are the two foci of his methodological framework. This article is a close reading of Suh’s few contributions available in English and puts his approach into the broader context of Minjung Theology and his dialogue with C.S. Song. It ends with a glance at the reception of the storytelling method for the 21^st century by Asian feminist theologians Kwok Pui-Lan and Joo Mee Hur, who manage to overcome the gender bias of the first-generation male theologians.