Dr. Hyun-Ah Kim (b. 1972) is a musicologist and an early modernist. Her areas of expertise include the history and theology of Christian music, ethics and spirituality of music, music as rhetoric, liturgical music, and the nexus of music and religious education, with a special focus on the Reformation and Renaissance humanism.
After studying music, theology and history in South Korea and the U.K. she completed a PhD in Historical Musicology at Durham University and conducted post-doctoral research under the auspices of various academic institutions, including the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies in the University of Toronto, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek in Emden, H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, and Gotha Research Centre (Forschungszentrum Gotha), Universität Erfurt. She was previously Regular Professor and Adjunct Professor at Trinity College in the University of Toronto and the Toronto School of Theology, where she taught a number of innovative courses on the intersections of music, theology, ethics, rhetoric, religion and spirituality.
Currently, she is Associate Fellow of the HDC Centre for Religious History, VU University Amsterdam, and is International Fellow of the Europäische Melanchthon-Akademie Bretten, where she works on a project, 'Music, Rhetoric and Christian Hebraism in Early Modern Europe: Reuchlin's Reconstruction of the Modulata Recitatio,' and leads an international and interdisciplinary project, Reformation Musical History and Theology (RMHT). In addition, she is founder and coordinator of the International Network for Music, Ethics and Spirituality (INMES) which aims to promote research, teaching and creative work on the nexus of music, ethics and spirituality from perspectives that are cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary and cross-confessional.

Selected Publications

Books

Kim, H. (2017; paperback, 2019): The Praise of Musicke, 1586: An Edition with Commentary. Music Theory in Britain 1500 – 1700. New York: Routledge.

Kim, H. (2017; paperback, 2019), with M. O'Connor and C. Labriola, eds. Music, Theology, and Justice. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Kim, H. (2015; paperback, 2017): The Renaissance Ethics of Music: Singing, Contemplation, and Musica Humana. Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World no. 19. London: Pickering & Chatto; New York: Routledge.

Kim, H. (2008): Humanism and the Reform of Sacred Music in Early Modern England: John Merbecke the Orator and The Booke of Common Praier Noted (1550). St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate [Routledge].

Essays in edited volumes and journals

Kim, H. (2020): Erasmus on I ad Corinthios 14. 15-19: The Erasmian Theology of Music and Its Legacy in Reformation England. In: Authority Revisited: Towards Thomas More and Erasmus in 1516. eds. W. François, V. Soen et al. Lectio Series. Studies in the Transmission of Texts and Ideas. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 261 – 304.

Kim, H. (2019): The Humanist Defense of Music Education in Civil and Religious Life: The Praise of Musicke (1586) and Apologia Musices (1588). In: Music, Education and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements. eds. H. Westerlund, P. Alperson and A. Kallio. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, pp. 183 – 195.

Kim, H. (2018): Singing, Prayer and Sacrifice: The Neo-platonic Revival of Musica humana in the Swiss Reformation. In: Music and Theology in the European Reformations. eds. D. Burn, G. McDonald, J. Verheyden, and P. De Mey. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 250 – 266.

Kim, H. (2017): Music of the Soul (Animae Musica): Marsilio Ficino and the Revival of Musica humana in Renaissance Neo-Platonism. In: Reformation & Renaissance Review 19.2., pp. 122–134.

Kim, H. (2015): Death, Music, and the Appropriateness of Emotions in Reformation England: Humanist Portrayals of Burial and Mourning in Musica Rhetorica. In: Dying, Death, Burial, and Commemoration in Reformation Europe. eds. J. Willis and E. Tingle. Farnham, U.K.; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, pp. 67– 88.

Kim, H. (2014): Matteo Ricci and His Confucian Friends: Interfaith Friendships in the Clash of Asian and European Humanisms. In: Friendship and Sociability in Pre-Modern Europe: Contexts, Concepts and Expressions. eds. A. McCue Gill and S. Rolfe Prodan. Toronto: CRRS, pp. 265 – 296.

Kim, H. (2013): Homo Ludens, Music, and Ritual: The Play/Non-Play Characters of Religious Music. In: Questions Liturgiques /Studies in Liturgy 94.3, pp. 220 – 246.

Dr. Eduardo Gross, 1966 in Brasilien  geboren, studierte Theologie und promovierte 1997 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Walter Altmann bei der Escola Superior de Teologia (Theologische Hochschule) in São Leopoldo, RS, mit einer Dissertation über das Thema „Glaube in der Theologie des uruguayischen Jesuiten Juan Luis Segundo“. Seit 1998 ist er Professor für Religionsphilosophie an der Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Bundesuniversität der Stadt Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasilien). Dort ist er an den Fakultäten der Religionswissenschaft, der Philosophie und der Humanwissenschaften tätig. Während seines akademischen Lebens waren Paul Tillich, Hans-Georg Gadamer und Paul Ricœur die wichtigsten Schwerpunkte seiner Forschung. Er ist Mitglied der brasilianischen Paul Tillich Sozietät und der brasilianischen Sozietät für Religionsphilosophie. 2018 veröffentlichte er  Philipp Melanchthons Loci Communes 1521 in portugiesischer Sprache, von ihm selbst übersetzt, wofür er auch eine neue Forschung begonnen hatte. Von April 2019 bis März 2020 war er für ein Jahr im Melanchthonhaus Bretten um die Entwicklung der Idee der Freiheit bei Philipp Melanchthon zu erforschen.

Dr. Eduardo Gross, born 1966 in Brazil, studied Theology and got his doctoral degree in 1997 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Walter Altmann at Escola Superior de Teologia (Theological Faculty) in São Leopoldo, RS, with a thesis on the theme “Faith in the theology of the Uruguayan Jesuit Juan Luis Segundo”. Since 1998 he has been professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil). There he works in the faculties of Religious Studies, Philosophy and Humanities. During his academic life, Paul Tillich, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricœur have been the main focus of his research. He is member of the Brazilian Paul Tillich Association and of the Brazilian Philosophy of Religion Association. In 2018 he published Melanchthon’s Loci Communes of 1521 in Portuguese language, translated by himself. In this context he started a new field of research. From April 2019 till March 2020 he stayed at Melanchthon’s House in Bretten for a one year research about the development of the Idea of Freedom in Philipp Melanchthon.