Research Areas
Research Directions

Research Directions

Applied Ethics

  • Bioethics and Genetics
  • Business Ethics and Confucianism
  • Chinese and Western Perspectives on Suicide and Euthanasia
  • Ethical Issues in Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics with Particular Reference to Down Syndrome
  • Foundations of Global Bioethics
  • Human Cloning and Christian Response
  • Moral Issues of the 'Genetification' of Medicine
  • Sexual Harassment at Workplace: Its Definition and Avoidance
  • Sexual Revolution: Reflections from Cultural, Philosophical and Religious Perspectives
  • The Moral Basis of Medicine
  • The Moral Impact of Biotechnology and 21st Century Youth
  • The Principle of Human Dignity in Modern Moral Discourse
  • Unjust Dismissal, Employee-Employer Relationship and Public Policy

Biblical Studies

  • Breaking the Spell of W. M. L. de Wette: the so-called Succession Narrative as Supplement
  • Evidence for the Common Authorship of the Succession Narrative and the Supplement to the History of Saul and David
  • Joseph and Amnon: the Literary Links between Gen. 39 and 2 Sam. 13.1-22
  • Johannine Studies
  • Luke-Acts Studies
  • Literary Links between Genesis 14.1-24 and the Books of Samuel
  • Redactional Interruption of the dialogue between Achish and David (1 Sam 21.15 and 27.5)
 Christian Studies

  • A Christian Response to Comprehensive Social Security Assistance [CSSA] Consultation Document, December 1998
  • A Critical Analysis of the Hong Kong Christian Responses to the Decriminalization of Homosexuality in the 1980s
  • Can the Critical Trust Approach to Religious Experience Be Combined with Religious Exclusivism? A Reply to John Hick
  • Changing Church and State Relations in Hong Kong 1950-2000
  • Chinese Churches and the Pluralistic Society
  • Christian Character Education: Its Possibility and Limitation
  • Christianity and Human Existence: John Macquarrie's Anthropology
  • Christianity and Modern Philosophy: Christianity in Dialogue with Analytic Philosophy and Existentialism
  • Contextualization of Christian Theology in the Chinese Culture
  • Divine Omniscience and Human Freedom
  • Doctrine, Truth and Religious Dialogue - A Study of Theological Methodology and the New Yale School of Theology
  • Economic Justice is A Human Right
  • Epistemological Implications of Exclusivism and the Impossibility of Religious Pluralism
  • Epistemological Significance of Contemporary Dialogue between Christian Religion and Modern Science
  • Epistemological Significance of Karl Barth's Rejection of Natural Theology
  • James Legge's Missionary-Scholar Career
  • Postmodernism and Evangelical Faith
  • Structural Integration of Social Services and Christian Faith: The Model of the Methodist Church in Hong Kong
  • Text and Meaning: Theological Hermeneutics in a Postmodern Era
  • The Idea of Christian Scholarship: Integration of Faith and Learning in an Age of Pluralism
  • The Incarnate Word and the Adamic Humanity - A Soteriological Approach
  • The Transformation and Development of Church-State Relations in Contemporary China: A Case Study of the Catholic Church
  • Wang Tao and James Legge
  • Wong Ming Tao's Ethics of Marriage
  • A Christian Philosophy of Work
 Chinese Philosophy/ Religion

  • A Political Philosophy from Xunzi and Li Ki-Li Yun
  • Buddhist Epistemology
  • Buddhist Philosophy of Transmigration
  • Encounter between Contemporary Neo-Confucianism and Traditional Chinese Buddhism
  • Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy
  • Encyclopedia of Confucianism
  • Feng Youlan Translation Project
  • Feng Youlan's History of Chinese Philosophy
  • Indigenizing the Sociological Study of Religion in the Chinese Context: Themes, Visions and Proposals
  • Ruist Monotheistic Metaphysics
  • The Mencius and its Demophilic Ideal
 Comparative Studies

  • A Comparison of Christian God-Human Relationship and Confucian Heaven-Human Relationship and their Moral Implications
  • Christianity and Daoism
  • Critical Edition of James Legge's Chinese Classics
  • Ernst Faber's Sinological Orientalism
  • Human Rights and Chinese Political Theory
  • Kant, Buddhism, and the Moral Metaphysics of Medicine
  • Philosophy of the Kyoto School
  • "Transcendence-within" and "Transcendence-without" - A Confucian-Christian Dialogue
 Modern Western Philosophy

  • Foucault's View of Power/Truth: Criticisms and Response
  • Kant's Critical Religion
  • Kant's Critical Science
  • Phenomenology of Pure Vitality
  • The Debate between Liberalism and Communitarianism
  • The Hermeneutics of Trust and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
  • The Proofs of the Grundgedanke in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
  • The Theory of Naming in Wittgenstein's Ttractatus
  • The Tractarian Operation N and Expressive Completeness

 

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