Hwang, Alexander
Assistant Professor of Historical Theology
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Alexander Y. Hwang joined the Louisville Seminary faculty in the fall of 2008 to serve a three-year contract term as Assistant Professor of Historical Theology, which coincides with the three-year leave of LPTS Professor Kathryn Johnson, who is serving the global church as Assistant General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva, Switzerland. Johnson is Professor of Historical Theology and Paul Tudor Jones Professor of Church History at LPTS.

Dr. Hwang previously taught at St. Louis University, where he was Assistant Professor of Medieval Church History. Since 2001, Dr. Hwang also has taught at Westmont College in California, Montclair State University in New Jersey, and Fordham University in New York City, where he earned his Ph.D. in historical theology, concentrating on Latin patristics, and an advanced doctoral certificate in medieval studies. His other degrees are from the University of Illinois (B.A., European history) and Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div.).

He is a Presbyterian (PCUSA) and a candidate for ordination under care of the Presbytery of Chicago. During and following his seminary studies, Dr. Hwang served various congregations in a variety of ministries. He was the college pastor of the Princeton Community Church and served on the staffs of Princeton University’s Manna Christian Fellowship and New York University’s Korean Christian Fellowship. Other calls led him to Anchorage, Alaska; New Mexico; and New Jersey, where he has served on the staffs of Presbyterian congregations, led youth and young adult ministries, and supported multi-cultural mission apointments.

Dr. Hwang has published articles in Studia Patristica,The Scottish Journal of Theology, Missiology, and The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. He is the author of Intrepid Lover of Perfect Grace: The Life and Thought of Prosper of Aquitaine, (Catholic University America Press, 2009). He is an active member of the North American Patristics Society, the American Academy of Religion (AAR), and the Medieval Academy of America. He is currently editing two books related to Patristics.

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