David C. Chao
Director of the Center for Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary
Invited Lectures
“Decolonizing Presbyterianism: Power and Theology in a Global Context.”
Presbyterian Mission Agency (PCUSA), Virtual, May 16, 2024.
“Reformed Identity, Christendom, and Global Christianity: The Case of Asia.”
Reformed Institute of Metropolitan Washington, Immanuel Presbyterian Church, McLean, VA, May 11, 2024.
“Asian American History and Theology.”
Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA, November 2, 2022.
“The Story of Asian (and Asian American) Theology.”
Templeton Honors Forum. Eastern University, St. Davids, PA, September 20, 2019.
Conferences Organized
“Asian Americans and the Presidential Election.”
Princeton Theological Seminary (hybrid), October 7, 2024
“Asian Exclusion and the Church: Ripples from the 1924 Immigration Act.”
Co-organizer with Asian American Christian History Institute (Fuller) and Epic (Cru)
Democracy Center, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA, May 29, 2024.
“Multiple Belongings in Transpacific Christianities.”
Co-organizer with the Overseas Ministries Study Center
Princeton Theological Seminary (hybrid), April 28-29, 2023.
“Hope from Ashes: Legacies and Lessons from the Los Angeles Riots.”
Co-Organizer with the Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies
Princeton Theological Seminary (online), May 13-14, 2022.
Book Panel Discussion of Barth in Conversation
Co-Organizer
American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, TX. 2021.
“Lived Theology in Asian America: Race, Justice, and Politics in Transpacific Context.”
Chair, Steering Committee
Princeton Theological Seminary (online), April 23-24, 2021.
“Asian American Theology Conference: Immigration, Providence, and Politics.”
Chair, Steering Committee
Princeton Theological Seminary, March 29-30, 2019.
“Römerbrief 1-7, with Andrea White and Katherine Grieb.”
Steering Committee
Karl Barth Graduate Student Colloquium. Center for Barth Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary, August 8-10, 2018.
“Providence, Church Dogmatics III/3 with Willie Jennings.”
Steering Committee
Karl Barth Graduate Student Colloquium. Center for Barth Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary, August 9-11, 2018
“Asian American Theology: Promise and Challenge.”
Chair, Steering Committee
Theology Colloquium. Princeton Theological Seminary, April 5, 2017.
“Theological Anthropology, Church Dogmatics III/2 with Paul Dafydd Jones.”
Steering Committee
Karl Barth Graduate Student Colloquium. Center for Barth Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary, August 10-12, 2016.
Conference Papers
“Providence, Concept Use, and Politics: The Limits of Barth’s Comprehensive Correction.”
Karl Barth Society of North America. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 22-26, 2024.
“The Empowering and Disempowering Impact of Religion: Filipino Nurses, COVID-19, and Anti-Asian Hate.”
With Aprilfaye Manalang and Christian Gloria.
Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative, University of California Berkeley, June 12, 2024.
“Hauntings of Archival Ghosts in Histories of Chinese Christianity: Modernity, Theological Categories, and Discursive Traditions.”
Thirteenth International Symposium on the History of Christianity in Modern China: Archives and the History of Chinese Christianity in Modern Times, Centre for Sino-Christian Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University and Divinity School of Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 6-7, 2024.
“A Framework for Asian American Spiritual Formation.”
With Sharon Wada.
Intergenerational Wholeness for Asian Americans, Princeton Theological Seminary, January 12, 2024.
“The 1517 Christendom Project and the Spirit of Post-Christendom Christianity: Migration and Formations of Asian American Christian Consciousness.”
Asian American Theology Conference: Multiple Belongings in Transpacific Christianities, Princeton Theological Seminary, April 29, 2023.
“Sketching a Social-Practical Theory of Christian Doctrine: Case Studies in Asian American Christianity.”
Systematic Theology Research Seminar, University of Aberdeen, December 16, 2021.
“Justice in Asian Liberation Theology: Aloysius Pieris and Karl Barth on the Struggle for Human Righteousness.”
Karl Barth Conference: The Future of Liberation Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary, June 17-20, 2018.
“Human Being’s Relation to Grace: Eberhard Jüngel and Thomas Aquinas on Anthropology and Justification.”
Eberhard Jüngel Research Colloquium. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 18-22, 2016.
“Dialogue, Domination, and the Missional Spirit: Amos Yong and Karl Barth on Interreligious Encounter.”
Karl Barth Conference: Karl Barth’s Pneumatology and Global Pentecostalism. Princeton Theological Seminary, June 19-22, 2016.
“Euthyphro and the Doctrine of God: Ethical Necessity in Isaak Dorner’s Understanding of the God-World Relationship.”
Nineteenth Century Theology Group and Schleiermacher Group (Co-Sponsored Session). Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 20-24, 2015.
“The Divine Power and Human Obedience of the Son Who Takes Away the Sin of the World: An Analysis of Barth’s CD §59.2, ‘The Judge Judged in Our Place.’”
Protestantse Theologische Universiteit—Princeton Theological Seminary Symposium. Princeton Theological Seminary, August 23-26, 2015.