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This survey course explores how Acts of Apostles describes the early Church's growth and the movement of the Holy Spirit. Significantly, this course examines spaces such as Jerusalem as a borderland; people from many other cultures experience the HolySpirit and create a borderland community, which is ever expanding in the cultural, political, and social milieux of the Greco-Roman world in the 1stcentury. This course pays attention to spiritual transformation, which includes discernment, dialogues, and openness, along with historical and literary understanding of the Biblical text. By closely reading the text, we study how characters experience transformation by analyzing their confessional repetitive narratives. This course emphasizes the movement of the Holy Spirit and the Church's border-crossing spirit from Jerusalem to Rome.
Dr. / Sister Sophia Park, SNJM, is associate professor at Holy NamesUniversity in California. She loves to give retreats, spiritual directions, and workshops in US and other countries. Her academic interests are global justice and spirituality, shamanism, postcolonial feminism, and mysticism. Sophia published numerous articles, including, “Jesus of Minjung on the Road to Emmaus (Luke: 24: 13-32), “The Galilean Jesus: Creating a Borderland at the Foot of the Cross (Jn. 19: 23-30),” “Cross Cultural Spiritual Direction: A Dance with a Stranger,” “Cross-Cultural Spiritual Direction: To Construct a Borderland.” Sophia authored many books, including A Hermeneutic on Dislocation as Experience: Creating a Hybrid Identity,Constructing a Borderland Community, Conversations at the Well: Emerging Religious Life in the 21st Century Global World, Border-Crossing Spirituality: Transformation in the Borderland, and An Asian Woman’s Religious Journey with Thomas Merton: Journey to the East/Journey to the West. She also wrote books in Korean, including Thoughtful Chats: How the Story Changed Women, Time for Sorrow, Beauty of the Broken, Seasons that I loved, Joy of Life,and For the Broken Humanities. She also writes articles on ordinary spirituality at the Korean Catholic News and offers women’s spirituality lessons through YouTube globally.