The Holy Spirit
Hand-Raisers, Han, and The Holy Ghost By Grace Ji-Sun Kim A Review by Dwight A. Moody I know what “hand-raisers” are and “The Holy Ghost,” but not until page 166 did I discover the meaning of Han. I had never even heard this word, which summarizes nicely now provincial my own intellectual formation has been. Han is a Korean word which means “unjust suffering.” Korean-American theologian Grace Ji-Sun Kim uses three historical episodes to illustrate the mean of Han: American slavery, Nazi Holocaust, and the Japanese invasion of Korea and the subsequent abuse of Korean people. Dr. Kim writes about Han to assert that one role of the Spirit—the Holy Spirit, in Christian vocabulary—is to release the Han (the memory or burden of ...
