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Prof. Tian-Min Lin (林天民教授)

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Prof. Tian-Min Lin (林天民教授)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Prof. Tian-Min Lin
  • Chinese: 林天民教授
  • Era: 1935
  • Geography: Kaohsiung, Taiwan(台灣高雄)
  • Core roles: professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Taiwan Theological College (台灣神學院) Visiting Professor of World Religion (2004-2004)

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1959 — B.A., Philosophy
  • Yale Univ. — 1964 — M. Div., Theology
  • Yale Univ. — 1965 — S.T.M., Theology
  • Boston Univ. — 1969 — Ph.D., Systematic Theology

Employment

  • Tougaloo College — Assistant Professor of Religion — (1969-1972) — Indiana University of Pennsylvania — Professor of Religious Studies — (1972-2002) — Aletheia University (真理大學) — Visiting Professor of Religion — (2003-2005) — Taiwan Theological College (台灣神學院) — Visiting Professor of World Religion — (2004-2004)

Family

  • Wife: Hsueh-Man
  • Daughter: May&Tina
  • Son: Stephen

Sources

Network

  • |PCT — TAH Who’s Who
  • |TAS at Yale — Yale years (M.Div. 1964, S.T.M. 1965). 徐頌鵬’s memoir of the first 美東台灣人夏令會 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys268||TAH #268]]) lists him among the divinity students / pastors he knew at Yale, and notes 林天民 was his 台大哲學系 senior.
  • Taught 回教 I, II at the 長青教室 run by |ITPC ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys107||TAH #107]])

Publications (vault records)

  • The Life and Thought of Soren Kierkegaard (1974) — noted by TAH as 第一本台美出版英文書: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/183-the-life-and-thought-of-soren-kierkegaard-by-prof-timothy-tian-min-lin-e7-ac||TAH #183]]
  • 《基督教與現代世界》(1988/01, 宗教): [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/463-e5-9f-ba-e7-9d-a3-e6-95-99-e8-88-87-e7-8f-be-e4-bb-a3-e4-b8-96-e7-95-8c-e6-9||TAH #463]]
  • Profile: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-189-tian-min-lin||TAH #189 Who’s Who entry]]

Role in the Community (deepen 2026-09-14, slice 09141213-32)

  • Cited by a peer memoir: 徐頌鵬’s memoir [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys268||TAH #268]] counts him among the Yale divinity students/pastors in the network that fed the 美東台灣人夏令會, noting 林天民 was his 台大哲學系 senior.
  • Lay teacher in SoCal churches: his 長青教室 (Evergreen Fellowship) classes at |ITPC covered 回教、佛教、猶太教 (TAH #107). A fellow member’s memoir [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys61||TAH #61]] describes how, after retirement in 南加州, he was invited to lecture monthly on the world’s five religions — attendance rose a third each session, though some conservative elders resisted the comparative-religion teaching.
  • Books in the corpus: beyond the Kierkegaard study, the vault also records 《宗教與現代人生》([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/462-e5-ae-97-e6-95-99-e8-88-87-e7-8f-be-e4-bb-a3-e4-ba-ba-e7-94-9f-e6-9e-97-e5-a||TAH #462]], 商務 2004/05 — the book TAH #61 credits with reshaping members’ Bible study) and a second record of the Kierkegaard book ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/464-the-life-thought-of-soren-kierkegaard-timothy-tian-min-lin-e5-a4-96-e6-96-87||TAH #464]]).
  • Co-founder of TARSA (2009-10-29): the peer memoir [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys61||TAH #61]] records that, in the wake of the ITPC controversy below, he co-founded 台美人信仰與人文研習會 (TARSA) at 台灣會館 on 2009-10-29 with |黃哲陽醫師, 黃友成 and the memoir’s author — the same society whose December 2017 seminar he later spoke at (|台灣公義報 2017-12-20) — see |TARSA.
  • 2009-08 ITPC heresy-ban episode: per [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys61||TAH #61]], after several years of monthly comparative-religion lectures at the 長青團契, the church’s pastor and 小會 issued a final resolution in 2009-08 labeling his faith “異端” and barring further lectures; the 長青團契 president, vice-president and all officers resigned en bloc and dissolved the program. (Reconciles the earlier “some conservative elders resisted” note: resistance escalated into a formal ban.)
  • Still active in 2017: 台美人信仰與人文研習會 (TARSA) December 2017 seminar featured him on 宗教 (|台灣公義報 2017-12-20).
  • 台大校友 record: he appears as 林天民(哲學) among signatories in the 南加州台大校友會 2018 statement re 管中閔 (|台灣公義報 2018-07-20).

From the record

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09260400-26, 2026-09-26）：本 slice 文章 c4d413fd5efb8a9c（FAHR 41週年年會報導） 正文再驗證——subject 連結為真實提及，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；含該文 wikilink 的日期事實條目已在庫 — SKIP，已飽和。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09240400-4, 2026-09-25）：本 slice 文章 c4d413fd 正文再驗證——林天民教授相關報導條目確認見於正文，subject link 為真（無錯鏈、無虛鏈）；2017-12-14 條目（已掛該文 wikilink）已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09221500-11, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 文章 c4d413fd（FAHR 41週年年會報導）正文再驗證——「林天民教授講宗教新聞@20171214」相關報導條目確認見於正文，subject link 為真實對應（無錯鏈、無虛鏈）；2017-12-14 條目（已掛該文 wikilink）已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09162345-27, 2026-09-23）：本 slice 文章 c4d413fd（FAHR 41週年年會報導）正文含「林天民教授講宗教新聞@20171214」相關報導條目，subject link 為真實對應（無錯鏈、無虛鏈）；2017-12-14 條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 2017-12-14 — 台美人信仰與人文研習會（TARSA）12月研討會邀林天民教授主講宗教新聞，活動見於台灣公義報「台美人台加人」版相關報導（TJJ, 2017-11-29 存檔）。

Corpus re-sweep — 2026-09-14 (slice 09141500-2)

  • 全庫 grep（林天民／Tian-Min Lin）命中之作品（TAH #189、#183、#462、#463、#464、Our Journeys #268、#107）皆已連結並吸收於上文 Role in the Community（slice 09141213-32）。無新增社群事實，SKIP-with-reason（已飽和）。

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