Members

Dr. Surya Harefa

PhD, Theological University Kampen

Dr. Harefa is a researcher at the Faith and Culture Center of Tokyo Christian University and Cooperative Pastor at Ibaraki Bible Church. His research focus is on Kuyper's ecclesiology.

Junggi Kim, MA

Junggi Kim is a PhD Candidate at Theological University Utrecht. His master's thesis is entitled  Junzi(君子) of Confucianism and Neo-Calvinism Christian Theology Suggesting Neo-Calvinistic Journalism Ethics to Journalists who live in Confucian Culture, and he has published a monograph in Korea, 티네커 메이어의 인생교실  [Tineke Meijer's Reformed Life Class], Seoul: Seumbooks, 2023.

Dr. Timothy Jones

PhD, King's College London

Timothy Jones is an overseer of training at Emmanuel Church in Brighton. His PhD thesis seeks to test Kuyper's Common Grace against the practices of contemporary Christians working in UK politics.

Dr. David Kristanto

PhD, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

David Kristanto is a lecturer in public theology at Bandung Theological Seminary and a contributing fellow for Center for Theological Inquiry in Asia. His research focus is Kuyper's public theology, in particular related to religious pluralism and ecotheology.

Sunyoung Kim, PhD 

Dr. Sunyoung Kim is a South Korean scholar of systematic theology. She received her Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the Graduate School of Christian Studies at Baekseok University in South Korea. Her doctoral dissertation is titled “A Worldview Reconstruction of Abraham Kuyper’s Doctrine of Common Grace: With Particular Attention to the Trinitarian Structure of Unity, Commonality, and Publicity.” She previously served as a pastor for young adults at Good Tree Church and is currently conducting research with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).

Her publications include “The World-Structural Reconstruction of Abraham Kuyper’s Common Grace – Focusing on the U-C-P Model of Unity, Commonality, and Publicity” (Studies in Systematic Theology, forthcoming, 2026); “Abraham Kuyper’s Worldview: Contextual Reading Focused on the Application of the Reformed Life Theology’s Proposition, ‘Theology is Not an Academic Discipline’” (Life and Word, 39, 2024, 195–233); and “A Comparative Study on the Relationship between General Revelation and Special Revelation: Herman Bavinck and Karl Barth” (KRJ, 75, 2026, 85–119).

Her primary research interests include Abraham Kuyper’s doctrine of common grace and worldview, Neo-Calvinism, and Reformed systematic theology.