One should regard one's religious or denominational affiliation as a point of departure, a point of entry, not the point of arrival because on cannot confine God to a particular religion or faith tradition, and therefore should not claim one's exclusive ownership of God. Regarding one's religious or denominational affiliation as _accidentally_; not as _inevitability_, is important in religious discourse and practice because such a sense of _accidentally_ of one's affiliation allows a space of _altering_ of reciprocal contestation and challenge, and a space of planetary gaze that sees others as fellow human beings, _regardless_.

— Namsoon Kang

Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_.

— Namsoon Kang

Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility, or it is nothing at all.

— Namsoon Kang

Teaching and learning _religious plurality often ends up privileging religious _texts_ over _practice_ and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and the lived experience of people who shape, situate, and structure these religious texts. Furthermore, adopting the politics of recognition as a pedagogical principle in teaching can lead to an _uncritical silence_ about the various forms of oppression and domination of certain religious groups. Here people often use _religious difference_ as a _religious alibi_ for the oppression or violation of human rights of certain groups of people, such as women or LGBT people.

— Namsoon Kang

The cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_.

— Namsoon Kang

Theologians are to look to the _beyond_-community–– _beyond_ nationality; skin-color, gender; sexual orientation, citizenship, religious affiliation––because God, the Divine, who is the primary frame of reference for theologians, is for, with, in, among those individual human beings. It is to reaffirm the sheer truth: No one is better or worse, superior or inferior to any other; and, 'ICH bin Du, went Ich bin' [I am you, when I am I.]

— Namsoon Kang

Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.

— Namsoon Kang

Theological discourses function in various ways as sites of contestation and resistance, of forming new religious and personal identities, and of building similarities. Theological discourses that theologians produce, disseminate, and teach in academia are not simply objective interpretations and neutral reflections on the world and the church in it. Instead, theological discourses are productions of and for the world and the church that we live in

— Namsoon Kang

Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.

— Namsoon Kang

The overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.

— Namsoon Kang