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Dr. LOK Wing Kai Peter

Dr. LOK Wing Kai Peter

Senior Lecturer

BA in Communication Studies (Coventry University)
MPhil in Comparative Literature (HKU)
PhD in Philosophy (Free (Vrije) University, Amsterdam)
MTS (Regis College, University of Toronto)

About Dr. LOK Wing Kai Peter

Peter Lok is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of critical theory, Continental philosophy, cultural studies, and practical theology. Formed within both Jesuit and Dutch Reformational intellectual traditions, he adopts an ecumenical perspective to address pressing contemporary social and cultural questions.

 

Peter’s recent research investigates the relationship between theology and embodied experience, situating body theology in critical dialogue with theories of emotional capitalism and the social structuring of affect/emotion. In his coming project, he will engage posthumanism and new materialism, examining their conceptual intersections with theology and their significance for understanding the ecological dimension of contemporary life.

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  • Research Interests
    • Theology of Culture
    • Practical Theology as Critical Theology
    • Reformational Philosophy
    • Postmodern Theology
    • Theology and Philosophy of the Body and Affect
    • The Religious Dimension of Phenomenology
    • Theory of Interpretation (Hermeneutics and Deconstruction)
    • St. Paul in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    • New Materialism, Posthumanism, and Theology
    • Hong Kong Culture
  • Representative Publications
    Books
    1. Body Theology as a Practical Theology (《身體：一個實踐神學的視角》) (tentative title; in Chinese). Hong Kong: Virtue and Wisdom Book, 2027 (forthcoming).
    2. Insight: Theo-Philosophical Reflections of a Sojourner (《洞察：一個異鄉人的神哲學筆記》) (in Chinese). Hong Kong: FES Press, 2026 (forthcoming).
    3. Emotional Capitalism: From Emotional Dictatorship to Emotional Redemption. New Alresford: iff Books, 2024.
    4. Emotional Capitalism: From Emotional Dictatorship to Emotional Redemption (《情感資本主義：從情感獨裁到情感救贖》) (in Chinese). Hong Kong: dirty Press, 2020.
    5. Hong Kong as Other: Imagination of Post/Colonial Hong Kong in Chinese Nationalist Discourses (《邊緣上的香港：國族論述中的後／殖民想像》) (in Chinese). Hong Kong: InPress Books, 2016.
    6. Postmodern Fetishism: A Theological Critique of Consumer Culture (《後現代拜物教──消費文化的神學批判》) (in Chinese, 4th ed.). Hong Kong: FES Press, 2017.
    Book Chapters
    1. “Contribution to Liberal Education: Emancipation and Creation: Two Dimensions of Public Theology” (《對通識教育的潛在貢獻：解放與創造：公共神學的兩種向度》) (in Chinese). In Lee Yu-Sum and Athena Tam (eds.), The Promise of Politics (《政治的承諾》). Taipei: Showwe, 2024.
    2. “Overcoming Traumatic Experience in Social Movements: Ambiguity and Volatility of Political Emotions in Blue Island” (《社運創傷經驗的超克──從〈憂鬱之島〉看政治情感的曖昧與變易》) (in Chinese). In Chronicles of Melancholy: The Film Blue Island and Hong Kong’s Identity Quest (《憂鬱的編年：電影〈憂鬱之島〉與香港的身分探詢》). Taipei: Springhill, 2023.
    3. “Biopolitics Outside the Law: Foucault and Agamben on Bodily Practice” (《法外狀態下的生命政治：論福柯及阿甘本的修煉轉向》) (in Chinese). In Chan Kam Fai (ed.), Apparatus / Omnia Omnibus: Technology–Life–Politics (《裝置一切：技術—生命—政治》). Hong Kong: Virtue and Wisdom Book, 2020.
    4. “Responsibility and Suffering: On Nietzsche and Levinas’ Ethics of the Body” (《責任與困苦：論尼采與列維納斯的身體倫理學》) (in Chinese). In K. K. Wong (ed.), Nietzsche in Perspectives (《尼采透視》). Taipei: Wunan, 2017.
    5. “Heterotopia as the Spiritual Space of Embracing the Other: Taking Midnight Diner as Example” (《異托邦作為接待他者的靈性空間：以〈深夜食堂〉作例》) (in Chinese). In Alan Choi (Ed.), The Grandeur of Spirituality 2 (《靈性的光輝 2》). Hong Kong: Spiritual Formation International, 2016.
    6. “A Universalist Seeking Sameness in Difference: Saint Paul in Badiou’s Thought” (《一個異中尋同的普世主義者：巴迪歐眼中的聖保羅》) (in Chinese). In Chan Kam Fai (ed.), Omnia Omnibus: St. Paul and Contemporary Thought (《一切：聖保羅與當代思潮》). Hong Kong: Virtue and Wisdom Book, 2016.
    7. “A Theologian Overcoming the Perversion of Law: Slavoj Žižek on St. Paul” (《作為克服法倒錯的神學家：齊澤克眼中的聖保羅》) (in Chinese). In Chan Kam Fai (ed.), Omnia Omnibus: St. Paul and Contemporary Thought (《一切：聖保羅與當代思潮》). Hong Kong: Virtue and Wisdom Book, 2016.
    8. “Misplacement of Desire: The Christian Church in the Age of Global Capitalism” (《欲望的錯置：全面市場化社會對教會的衝擊》) (in Chinese). In Francis Yip (ed.), Consumerism and the Church. Hong Kong: Chinese Christian Literature Council, 2013.
    Journal Articles
    1. “Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Mystical Materialism and Its Ecological Implication.” Theology 129, no. 5 (September/October 2025).
    2. “Is Pope Francis a Marxist?” International Journal of Public Theology 18, no. 4 (2024).
    3. “Lawless as Law: On Bauman’s Ethics of Lawlessness” (〈以無法為法：論鮑曼的法外倫理〉) (in Chinese). O-Square (《方圓》), no. 22 (Autumn 2024).
    4. “God and Object-Oriented Philosophy: On Teilhard’s Mystical Materialism” (〈物轉向思潮下的上帝：論德日進神秘唯物論〉) (in Chinese). O-Square (《方圓》), no. 11 (Spring 2022).
    5. “Materialism of Fear” (〈恐懼唯物論〉) (in Chinese). O-Square (《方圓》), no. 2 (Spring 2019).
    6. “Cynicism or Liberation: On 100 Most’s Pleasure Politics” (〈犬儒抑或解放：《100毛》的快感政治〉) (in Chinese). Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences (《香港社會科學學報》), no. 50 (Spring/Winter 2017).
    7. “Hong Kong as a ‘Bizarre National Redemptive Space’ for the New Chinese Middle Class: Lost in Hong Kong.” Social Transformations in Chinese Societies 13, no. 2 (2017): 149–158.