Matthew Tsai (蔡茂堂博士)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Matthew Tsai
- Chinese: 蔡茂堂博士
- Era: 1949
- Geography: 台灣 彰化
- Core roles: physician, professor, educator
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Publications: 信仰之路 (2005), 忠心管家 (2006), 活出真愛 (2007), 與神相會 (2008), 編織愛網 (2009), 健康教會 (2010), 同被建造 (2011), 天起涼風 (2013)
Education
- National Taiwan Univ. — 1975 — M.D.
- 福樂神學院 — 1987 — 宣道學碩士 MA Missiology
- 台福神學院 — 1992 — 道學碩士 M. Div.
- Chicago International Univ. — 2002 — Ph.D., 文化間研究 Intercultural studies
Employment
- 美國東安台福基督教會 — 1992 — 主任牧師
- 美國台福正道神學院 — 1992 — 兼任教師
- 芝加哥松柏台福教會 — 1997 — 牧師
- 芝加哥台福基督教會 — 2000 — 主任牧師
Family
- Wife: 許信貞
- Son: 蔡銘恩
- Son: 蔡天申
- Daughter: 蔡美佳
Role in the Community
- Held in the TAH story corpus as its own profile, “302. Matthew Tsai 蔡茂堂” (2015-02-16): [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/302-matthew-tsai-e8-94-a1-e8-8c-82-e5-a0-82201502|TAH story #302]].
- 2016-02-17 — his retirement message 《從白袍到黑袍》(from white gown to black gown) was published in the corpus: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/34-dr-mao-tong-tsai-retirement-message-022016|TAH #34, 退休感言]]; the same story appears as [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories402|TAH story #402「牧師醫師蔡茂堂」/羅以]], recording his dual vocation as physician (白袍) and church pastor (黑袍). Consistent with the 1992–2000 TFC pastoral postings in the Employment table above.
- Re-verified 2026-09-22 / 2026-09-23 (slice 09221400-27): fresh corpus grep (works/, articles/) returns only the records cited in this section (#302, #34 退休感言, #402 羅以, plus the works index) — no additional memoir or movement material to absorb.
- Re-verified 2026-09-26 (slice 09252123-15): identical hit set (#302, #34 退休感言, #402 從白袍到黑袍/羅以, plus the works index) — SKIP-content; no new corpus material to absorb.
- Re-verified 2026-10-07 (slice 10051918-7): fresh grep 蔡茂堂/Matthew Tsai/Mao-Tong across all five corpus dirs (works/articles/sources/events/topics) returns the identical hit set (#302, #34 退休感言, #402 羅以, plus index/source rows) — verified saturated, no new material to absorb.