Principal of Iona Columba College


이상택 학장 프로필

학장 이상택 목사 (Reverend Dr Sang Taek Lee)는 한국에서 감리교신학대학과 연세대학교 연합신학대학원을 졸업했으며 호주로 유학하여 시드니 대학 (University of Sydney)에서 석사(MA)와 철학박사 (PhD)학위를 받았다. 박사과정중에 옥스퍼드 대학 (University of Oxford)에서 연구한 바 있고, 미국 샌프란시스코 신학대학에서 목회학 박사를 받았다. 최근 그는 임상목회 (Clinical Pastoral Education CPE) 을 연구하여 지도교수의 자격을 가지고 계시다.

1980 년 호주로 이주 최초로 시드니에 설립된 한인교회인 시드니 연합교회에서 20 년간 목회를 하셨으며 호주연합교단의 목사로써 (Uniting Church in Australia) 호주연합 교회 호주인 목회를 16년 동안 담임 목회 하시였다.

호주 찰스 스터트 대학 (Charles Sturt University) 과 한남대학 박사과정 공동교육 운영 Director/ Adjunct Professor 로써 후진들의 양성에 매진 하였으며 한국에서는 교육부 장관상을 받으셨다. 1995년에는 호주정부로부터 호주 국민훈장 (OAM) 을 받으셨다. 켈틱 기독교와 현대교회 등 영어와 한글로된 여러 저서를 출간하셨고, 2014년에 호주에서 아이오나 콜럼바 대학 (Iona Columba College)을 설립하여 호주에서는 처음으로 호주정부로부터 신학대학 인가를 받은 설립자이시다. 현재 아이오나 콜럼바 대학의 학장 및 이사장으로 대학을 섬기고 계시다.

Introduction to Sang Taek Lee, principal of Iona Columba College

Reverend Dr Sang Taek Lee is a Korean ordained by the Korean Methodist Church who emigrated to Australia in 1980 and became a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia.

Sang Taek continued to study at the University of Sydney and received MA and PhD degrees (1992) from the University of Sydney. He also received a Doctor of Ministry from San Francisco Seminary School (1988) and researched the life and thoughts of John Wesley at the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford (1983).

He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) from the Australian Government for service to the community (1995) while he was serving in the Korean Community in Australia as the minister of the Korean Strathfield Uniting church. Sang Taek had served the Korean church (1980-1999) and English speaking congregations (2000-2016).

Sang Taek is an adjunct lecturer of the United Theological College of Charles Sturt University and was also an adjunct Professor of Hannam University in Korea as the Australian director of Hannam and Charles Sturt University program, Sydney for the Doctor of Theology in Ministry for the Korean Diaspora. His teaching fields are Ministry and Theology, and Spirituality and Church History. In 2013, he founded Iona Columba College and is now the principal (CEO).

His hobby is to paint as an artist and to write poems. He won the first prize from a prize–winning poem in a Christian magazine in Korea.

Selected Publications:

“The Kingdom of God in Korea” (Korean church history). Seoul: Yang Suh Publishing, 1988.
“New Church New Land” (the Korean migrant church experiences). Melbourne: Uniting Church Press, 1989.
“Religion and Social formation in Korea” (Minjung and Millennial Hope). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996.
“An early woken bird” (poems). Seoul: Qumran Publishing House, 1996.
“새 교회와 새땅”. 서울: 한국장로교출판사, 2011.
“Celtic Christianity and Modern Church”. Seoul: PCK Publishing, 2013.
“Early Christian Communities in Asia Minor”. Seoul: Annie Printing, 2014.
“The Australian Mission to Korea” (후주선교 한국선교). 서울: 한국장로교출판사, 2016.

Sang Taek Lee
Principal of Iona Columba College