t.lee@tcu.edu
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Tim Lee has a wide-ranging interest in the history of Christianity, particularly in Asia and Asian-America. He teaches introductory courses in Christian History and more specialized ones in Asian/Asian-American Christian History. His current research focuses on the history of Christianity in Korea, a topic about which he has written a number of articles and coedited a volume. He also directs Brite’s Asian (Korean) Church Studies Program. Before coming to Brite in 2002, he had taught at the University of Chicago and the University of California at Los Angeles. Tim is an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and has served as moderator of North American Pacific Asian Disciples. He is married to Yeahwa and with her has two children, Joseph and Esther.
B.A., Unviersity of Illinois (Urbana), 1983.
M.A., University of Chicago, 1986
C.M.S., University of Chicago, 1996
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1996
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
books and articles
Christianity in Korea Christianity in Korea, co-edited with Robert E. Buswell (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006)
"Beleaguered Success: Korean Evangelicalism in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century," in Christianity in Korea, ed. Robert E. Buswell and Timothy S. Lee (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006)
"A Political Factor in the Rise of Protestantism in Korea: Protestantism and the March First Movement," Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture (March 2000)
Courses
research interests
Dr. Lee is currently doing research for a book on Evangelicalism in Korea, a book chapter on the history of Campbell-Stone movement in Asia and Asian America, and a narrative on the history of Christianity in Korea.
suggested reading
Pyong Gap Min and Jung Ha Kim, ed. Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2002.

Samuel Hugh Moffett. A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. 2. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2005.

George E. Ogle. How Long, O Lord: Stories of Twentieth Century Korea. Xlibris Corporation, 2002.