Eugene Eung-Chun Park Ph.D.

Eugene Eung-Chun Park is a New Testament scholar who specializes in interpreting both canonical and apocryphal early Christian literature from the perspective of Greco-Roman history, literature, and philosophy. He is especially interested in exploring the influence of Plato's thought on earliest Christian writings.

The major areas of his academic interest are Matthew in the Jewish and Hellenistic context, life and theology of Paul, anti-imperial ideologies in the New Testament, issues of justice in the New Testament, and theological diversity in early Christianity. He is an active member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS).

At SFTS and GTU, he regularly teaches both introductory courses in Gospels and Pauline Epistles and advanced doctoral seminars on Matthew in context, New Perspectives on Paul, Parables of Jesus, and Reading Plato in Classical Greek. He is serving on the core doctoral faculty at the GTU and in that capacity he has supervised many M.A. and Ph.D. students in New Testament.

He is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church (USA), and as a Korean American he maintains a close relationship with the theological and ecclesiastical communities in Korea.

• Ph.D., early Christian literature, University of Chicago
• S.T.M., New Testament, Yale Divinity School
• M.Div., Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Seoul
• B.A., English education, Seoul National University

• Professor of New Testament, San Francisco Theological Seminary, 1996–present
• Mentor at the summer research program, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011–2019
• Visiting professor, Yonsei University School of Theology, 2010
• Senior research associate, Westminster College and the Divinity School, University of Cambridge, 2003

• Park, Eugene Eung-Chun. Either Jew or Gentile: Paul's Unfolding Theology of Inclusivity. Westminster John Knox, 2003.
• Park, Eugene Eung-Chun. The Mission Discourse in Matthew's Interpretation. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1995.
• Park, Eugene Eung-Chun. Gospel for the World: Studies in the Acts of the Apostles. Korean Institute for Biblical Studies, 1997. In Korean.
• Park, Eugene Eung-Chun. "Dialectic of Aletheia and Eleutheria in Galatians." In Matthew, Paul, and Others, edited by William Loader et al., 121–136. University of Innsbruck Press, 2019.
• Park, Eugene Eung-Chun. "Covenantal Nomism and the Gospel of Matthew." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 77 (2015): 668–685.
• Park, Eugene Eung-Chun. "Cynic Itinerant Philosophers and Galilean Wandering Missionaries in Matthew." In Reading a Tendentious Bible, edited by Marvin Chaney et al., 125–139. Sheffield Phoenix, 2014.

• GTU Excellence in Teaching Award, 2024
• Wabash Institute Grant for Peer Mentoring Leadership, 2018
• Wabash Institute Theological Faculty Fellowship, 2009
• Luce Foundation Fellowship for the IASACT at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004