[Dialogue] Death of Yap Kim Hao

[John Epps]

Though I didn't know him well, I came to greatly appreciate Bishop Yap and
his profound practicality. His book, "Doing Theology in a Pluralistic
World" (Nashville: Methodist Book House, 1990) could well be a primer for
anyone concerned about living effectively in a world of diversity. He was a
scholar as well as a practitioner and spent at least a year as a visiting
professor at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas. I was honored to meet
him in Malaysia and to publish a review of his book. His insights seem all
the more relevant today, and his promotion of them will be missed. As
others have noted, his contribution to our common mission was substantial,
and he joins that "great cloud of witnesses" from whom we all draw
sustenance.

Thanks, Dharma, for letting us know of his completed life.

John Epps

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 4:42 AM, Al Lingo via Dialogue <
dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Thank you so very much for your tribute to Yap Kim Hao, Dharma,
> May you be well.
>
> Al Lingo
> clingojr at aol.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dharmalingam Vinasithamby via Dialogue <
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> Subject: [Dialogue] Death of Yap Kim Hao
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> Dear Colleagues,
> Yap Kim Hao, the man who provided the Ecumenical Institute the umbrella
> for its activities in Malaysia in the 60s and 70s , died at the age of 88
> in Singapore this morning. He became the first Asian bishop of the
> Methodist church in Malaysia and Singapore in 1968.Those of us who worked
> in Malaysia and Singapore in those years will know how important his
> support was to us. Thanks to him, we were able to use Rev Kjell Knutsen’s
> residence as the KL Religious House. He was a progressive thinker in a
> denomination stuck in the two-storey universe. He spent the last few
> decades of his retirement in Singapore where he worked with various groups
> such as the Inter Religious Organisation and those fighting for gay rights.
> Dharmalingam
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