Asian Faces of Jesus
Asian Faces of Jesus

Author: R. S. Sugirtharajah

Publisher: SCM Press

Published: 2013-08-13

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780334051626

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Although Jesus was born in the western part of Asia, it was not until fifteen hundred years later that Asia experienced the full impact of Jesus' personality and teaching. Western missionaries, the primary transmitters of Christianity, left behind a Western understanding of Jesus. Today, Asians are seeking the face of the original Jesus- his Asian face. For them, all understandings of Jesus arise out of their particular contextual needs. Enriching the Western understanding of Jesus, Asians employ new interpretative resources, cultural symbols, and thought patterns as they make sense of Jesus for their own time and place. Part I focuses on "Jesus Amid Other Asian Ways, Truths and Lights." Part II presents "Newly Emerging Profiles of Jesus Amid Asia's Poverty and Religious Plurality." Contributors include Ovey N. Mohammed, Seiichi Yagi, Aloysius Pieris, Stanley J. Samartha, Michael Amaladoss, C. S. Song, Kosuke Koyama, Michael Rodrigo, Chung Hyun Kyung, and Sebastian Kappen.

Asian and Oceanic Christianities in Conversation
Asian and Oceanic Christianities in Conversation

Author: Heup Young Kim

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 9042032995

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Preliminary Material -- Preface -- An Overview: Asian and Oceanic Christianity in an Age of World Christianity /M. Thomas Thangaraj -- An Asian Journey Seeking Christian Wholeness: Owning Up to Our Own Metaphors (Theotao) /Heup Young Kim -- Contextualized and Cumulative: Tradition, Orthodoxy and Identity from the Perspective of Asian Theology /Anri Morimoto -- An Asian Christian? Or a Christian Asian? Or an Asian-Christian?: A Roman Catholic Experiment on Christian Identity /Peter C. Phan -- Texts and Terrorism: Communal Strife, Sacred Scriptures and Secular Stories /R.S. Sugirtharajah -- The Economy of God-talk in Asia: A Cultural Materialist Critique /Angela Wai Ching Wong -- Pacifism: its Frustration and an Alternative /Hisako Kinukawa -- The Guide Who Stands Aside: Confessing Christ in India Today /J. Jayakiran Sebastian -- Blessed are the Peacemakers: The Search for an East Asian Reading /Benoît Vermander -- Reimagining Home: a Diasporic Perspective on Encounters with the Religious Other in Australia /Seforosa Carroll -- Emerging Theology on an Asian Frontier: History and the Future of Memories in West Papua, Indonesia /Charles E. Farhadian -- Pasifika Secrets /Jione Havea -- Learning to Speak a New Tongue: Imagining a Way That Holds People Together /Fumitaka Matsuoka -- About the authors -- Index of Names.

Asian and Pentecostal
Asian and Pentecostal

Author: Allan Anderson

Publisher: OCMS

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9781870345439

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Provides a thematic discussion and case studies on the history and development of Pentecostal and Charismatic churches in the countries of South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia.

Asian Theology of Liberation
Asian Theology of Liberation

Author: Aloysius Pieris, S.J.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1988-01-09

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0567640272

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Pieris confronts two of the most urgent and complex questions facing Christians today - so many poor people and so many religions. He believes that the approaches of the Christian Churches to these questions will determine whether Christianity will continue to have any relevance for Asia or not.

Embodying Antiracist Christianity
Embodying Antiracist Christianity

Author: Keun-joo Christine Pae

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-12-21

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 3031372646

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At a moment of notably rising levels of anti-Asian hate, this book offers antiracist resources informed by Asian/North American feminist theology and biblical scholarship. Although there exist scholarly books and articles on Asian American theology (broadly defined) have proliferated in response to the current ethical, political, and cultural environment have been prolific, there have been few concerted efforts to interrogate or dismantle anti-Asian racism inseparable from anti-black racism, and white settler colonialism that have often undermined the communal spirit and livelihood of Christian churches in the current political climate. In the current political climate, COVID-related anti-Asian hate and racial conflict, which all intersect with gender and sexuality-based violence, require theological, moral, and political inquiries. Hence, this book notes the current paucity of work with critical discussions on the multiple facets of racism from Asian American feminist theological perspectives. Contributors deepen the inter/transdisciplinary approaches concerning how to dismantle racist theological teachings, biblical interpretations, liturgical presentations, and the Christian church’s leadership structure.