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Gerald C. Liu

Assistant Professor of Worship and Preaching

Gerald C. Liu
Practical Theology
107 Templeton Hall

Phone: 609.436.6272
Fax: 609.524.0908
[email protected]
United Methodist

Profile
Gerald C. Liu is assistant professor of worship and preaching at Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned his BA (Music) at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri (2000), his Master of Divinity from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University (during which time he was also a theological fellow at Georg-August Universität in Göttingen, Germany) (2004, 2002-03), and his PhD from Vanderbilt University with a concentration in homiletics and liturgics (2013). 

He has previously served as a British Methodist Minister in Nottingham, England (2005-07) before becoming ordained in the Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church (2010). Currently, he volunteers as a minister in residence at Church of the Village, a United Methodist congregation in Manhattan. 
 
His classes and publications explore curiosities about the arts as theological resources and phenomena, Asian American identity, multicultural worship, and the production of believable public Christian witness.

Curriculum Vitae

Select Publications

  • Music and the Generosity of God, forthcoming
  • “We Still Need the Coming of God,” Theology Today 74:1 (2017), 49-56. 
  • “An Interreligious Funeral for a Taiwanese Centenarian and the Mystery of Useless Suffering,” Homiletic 40.2 (2015). 
  • “Implications of Aesthetic Education for Liturgical Education,” Proceedings (2015).
  • “Christian Worship and the Question Concerning Technology,” Liturgy 30.2 (2015), 36-44.
  • “Porneia, Homosexuality, and the Need for Homiletic Evolution,” Theology and Sexuality 19.1 (2013), 61-68. [*actual date of publication 2014.]
  • “Chin Toy and Yong-Seen-Sang: Chinese American Proclaimers of the 19th Century,” in Preaching As Picturing God in a Fragmented World: Studia Homiletica, Vol. 8 (Delft, The Netherlands: Eburon Academic Publishers, 2012), 117-126. 

Educating faithful Christian leaders.

Faculty at Evangelical Theological Seminary, Cairo, Egypt

Samy Estafanos, Class of 2015

“Princeton Seminary shaped and equipped me for the teaching ministry that I am practicing now. I was shaped spiritually, mentally, and socially by all means.”