Kai-man Kwan
Kai-man Kwan (Chinese: 關啟文) is a Chinese Christian philosopher at Hong Kong Baptist University.[1] He is the current Director of the Centre for Sino-Christian Studies.[2]
Education and career[edit]
After graduating as an electrical engineer from the University of Hong Kong in 1983, Kwan worked as a Science and Maths teacher first at Matteo Ricci College, and then at Carmel Alison Lam Foundation Secondary School. He completed his M.Phil. in 1991 and Ph.D. in 1993 from Oxford University under the supervision of Richard Swinburne.[3] The next year he joined Hong Kong Baptist University as a part-time Lecturer. He served as the Head of the Department of Religion and Philosophy from 2013 to 2018.[4] He was one of the founding members of the Centre for Sino-Christian Studies under the faculty of Arts and Humanities in 2001, where he served as Research Project Coordinator from 2001-2004 and as Associate Director from 2004–2006.[5] He is its current Director.
Kwan served on the "Academic Council" of the now-defunct, California-based International Children's Rights Institute,[6] an organization founded by Robert Oscar Lopez that unsuccessfully lobbied against gay marriage in the United States, Australia, and Taiwan.
Major publications[edit]
- (2011) The Rainbow of Experiences, Critical Trust, and God: A Defense of Holistic Empiricism', New York: Continuum.
- with Alberto Garcia, eds. (2017) Religious perspectives on Human Rights and Bioethics, Springer Nature.
Chinese Titles
- 關啟文，《我信故我思—真理路上的摰誠探索》，香港：基督徒學生福音團契，1998年9月。
- 關啟文，《「是非」、「曲直」──對人權、同性戀的倫理反思》，香港：宣道出版社，2000年7月。
- 關啟文，《上帝、世俗社會與道德的基礎》，香港：天道，2006年4月。
References[edit]
- ↑ "Staff Profile". Department of Religion and Philosophy, HKBU. Archived from the original on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "About". Centre for Sino-Christian Studies. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Staff Profile". Department of Religion and Philosophy, HKBU. Archived from the original on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Wayback Machine capture of 10 May 2013". Department of Religion and Philosophy, HKBU. Archived from the original on 2013-05-10. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ↑ "Staff Profile". Department of Religion and Philosophy, HKBU. Archived from the original on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Academic Council | International Children's Rights Institute". internationalchildrensrights.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2022. Unknown parameter
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| Preceded by Lauren Pfister[1] |
Head Department of Religion and Philosophy Hong Kong Baptist University 2013 to 2018 |
Succeeded by Ellen Y. Zhang |
| Preceded by Lauren Pfister |
Director Centre for Sino-Christian Studies current |
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- ↑ "Staff Profile". Department of Religion and Philosophy, HKBU. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
