Bonnie E. Lin

PhD Candidate | Practical Theology (Christian Education and Formation)

Bonnie E. Lin is a PhD Candidate in Practical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she earned an MDiv (Christian Education and Formation) and ThM (Pastoral Care). She also holds a BA (English and Religion) from Amherst College. Her research interests in Christian discipleship and pastoral care include culturally responsive teaching and the learning sciences, trauma recovery and restorative practices, and Asian American Christianity. At Princeton Seminary, Bonnie has developed and taught a course on educational strategy in conflictual contexts, co-led the Asian American Theology and Ministry Colloquium and co-organized the Asian American Theology Conference, directed research for ministry innovation in urban churches (Log College and Zoe Projects’ Trenton Design Incubator), and designed a digital learning tool on the model minority myth (Zoe Project’s Antiracist Design Lab). Bonnie has taught courses at Peking University and the National Tsing Hua University, cared for individuals and families as a crisis counselor and hospital chaplain, and served in the teaching ministries of several churches in New Jersey. She works for ScholarLeaders International, an organization that supports theological leaders and institutions in the Majority World.

Dissertation

• Philoxenia as Formation: Christian Hospitality for Mutual Learning Across Difference

Committee

• Gordon S. Mikoski, Chair
• Kenda Creasy Dean
• Bo Karen Lee

Select Publications

• “At-Homeness, Placemaking, and Holy Anticipation: Christian Hospitality in Educational Practice.” International Academy of Practical Theology Conference Series 3 (2023): 63-70. https://doi.org/10.25785/iapt.cs.v3i1.803.
• “Encountering the Other: Postmodern and Barthian Pastoral Theologies in Dialogue.” International Journal of Practical Theology 24, no. 2 (2020): 212-230. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijpt-2020-0055/html
• “All This is from God: Augsburger, Lederach, Barth, and Coutts on Forgiveness.” Pro Ecclesia 28, no. 1 (2019): 39-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/1063851219829928.
• “A Transforming Power: Teaching the Bible in China.” Bible Study Magazine, January/February 2018. http://www.biblestudymagazine.com/transforming-power.
• “Reaching China’s Intellectuals.” ScholarLeaders International. May 2017. https://www.scholarleaders.org/reaching-chinas-intellectuals.
• “A Prophetic Voice for the Pakistani Church.” ScholarLeaders International. October 2016. https://www.scholarleaders.org/a-prophetic-voice-for-the-pakistani-church.
• “Redeem India: A New Response to Persecution.” ScholarLeaders International. August 2016. https://www.scholarleaders.org/redeem-india-a-new-response-to-persecution.
• “Leaders of a Multiethnic Fellowship.” In A Transforming Vision: Multiethnic Fellowship in College and in the Church, edited by Paul V. Sorrentino, 136-145. South Hadley, MA: Doorlight, 2011. (Co-authored with Sarah Bass, Janet Lydecker, Jenn Roberge Chudy, Rob Godzeno, Janet Ha, and Matt Mascioli.)