In 1990, Chung introduced Asian women's theology with her book Struggle to Be the Sun Again: Introducing Asian Women's Theology. In it, she responds to the emerging liberation theology which argues for Christianity's preferential option for the poor. She interprets the Gospel through her experience as an Asian woman:
"Doing theology is a personal and a political activity. As a Korean woman, I do theology in search of what it means to be fully human in my struggle for wholeness and in my people's concrete historical fight for freedom." (1990: 1)
WCC at Canberra
In 1991, she was invited to speak at a World Council of Churches gathering in Canberra, Australia. Her speech[3] created a furor and she was accused of syncretism, that is, combining Christian teachings and practices with elements of other traditions. Her retort, however, was:
If they ask me, "Are you a syncretist?" I say, "You are right, I am a syncretist, but so are you." My response is that I know I am a syncretist, but you don’t know you are a syncretist because you have hegemonic power ... non-Christian cultures, when they try to interpret the gospel out of their life experience, they are syncretists! But they are just being true to their identity, history and culture.[4]
In the same interview, she challenged the Western values imposed on the Third World:
"I think in order to really heal the world we need the 'wisdom of darkness.' This can be the Third World, dark people, women, or our 'shadows,' ... all the things we do not want to confront within ourselves, so we project them onto others and call them terrorists. So, I think that we need 'endarkenment' for a while, not enlightenment, to heal the world."[4]
^錢玲珠 [Teresa Ling-Chu CHIEN] (November 2012). "聖母瑪利亞的故事與女性神學" [The story of Saint Mary, and Women's Theology]. Research Center for Liturgy, Fu Jen Faculty of Theology of St. Robert Bellarmine. Retrieved 25 May 2016.