CertEd, BA, MA, MA, PhD
Dr. Edmund Kee-Fook Chia is originally from Malaysia. He served from 1996-2004 as executive secretary of interreligious dialogue for the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences. He then joined Catholic Theological Union in Chicago where he last served as Associate Professor and Chair of the Doctrinal Studies Department. Since 2011 he has been on the faculty of the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, where he teaches theology and coordinates the Interreligious Dialogue Network.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
• Asian Christianity and Theology: Inculturation, Integral Liberation and Interrreligious Dialogue (Abingdon, UK: Routledge Publications, 2021), in press.
o (Translation) Kekristenan dan Teologi Asia: Inkulturasi, Pembebasan Integral dan Dialog Antaragama (Ledalero Publisher, Flores, Indonesia, 2022), in press.
• (editor) Confucianism and Christianity: Interreligious Dialogue on the Theology of Mission (Abingdon, UK: Routledge Publications, 2021), xii–209.
• World Christianity Encounters World Religions: A Summa on Interfaith Dialogue (Collegeville, MN, USA: Liturgical Press, 2018), xx–252.
o (Translation) Kekristenan Dunia Bertemu dengan Agama-agama Dunia (Ledalero Publisher, Flores, Indonesia, 2019), xviii–360.
• (editor) Interfaith Dialogue: Global Perspectives (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), xxxii–276.
• Edward Schillebeeckx and Interreligious Dialogue: Perspectives from Asian Theology (Eugene, OR, USA: Pickwick/Wipf & Stock, 2012), xii–165.
• (co-editor, with Ogbu Kalu and Peter Vethanayagamony) Mission after Christendom: Emergent Themes in Contemporary Mission (Louisville, KY, USA: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010), xxx–256.
• (co-editor, with James W. Heisig) A Longing for Peace: The Challenge of a Multicultural, Multireligious World (Bilbao, Spain: Asociacion Haretxa, 2006), xxiv–446.
• (editor) Dialogue: Resource Manual for Catholics in Asia (New Delhi, India: ISPCK, 2002), xxiv–353.
Research areas
Positions
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Honorary Research Fellow
External Affiliations
- Australian Catholic University (Senior Lecturer)
- Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands (Visiting Researcher)