The Asian House of Studies will host a "Lunch & Talk" event with Dr. Paul Lim, the associate professor of the history of Christianity at Vanderbilt University.
Dr. Paul Lim will be giving a lecture on the preceding day, Wednesday, February 28, from 7:30 - 8:45pm. The topic is “Being ‘Embarrassed’ about the Supernatural? Thomas Woolston (1668-1733) and Anglican and Patristic Interpretation of the Miracles of Jesus in Context.”
Dr. Paul C.H. Lim is an award-winning historian of Reformation- and post-Reformation Europe. His work, Mystery Unveiled: The Crisis of the Trinity in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2012), won the 2013 Roland H. Bainton Prize as the best book in history by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. He has published two other books in that area: The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge, 2008); and In Pursuit of Purity, Unity, and Liberty: Richard Baxter’s Puritan Ecclesiology in Context (Brill, 2004).
Lim earned his Ph.D. in ecclesiastical history from Cambridge University with further training in Latin, archival research, and history of biblical exegesis from Université de Genève.
His teaching and research foci include (1) Christology, Enlightenment, and modernity; (2) the identity of Jesus—theological, cultural, political—in contemporary global Christianity; (3) God and human suffering in Christian traditions; (4) “Losing My Religion?” Disenchantment, Evangelicalism, and Its Discontents; and (5) an ethnographic account and historical narrative of Korean American Protestant identities.