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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792369703321

Autore

Chung Paul S. <1958->

Titolo

Constructing irregular theology [[electronic resource] ] : bamboo and Minjung in East Asian perspective / / by Paul S. Chung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009

ISBN

1-282-60167-9

9786612601675

90-474-4449-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Studies in systematic theology, , 1876-1518 ; ; v. 1

Disciplina

230.095

Soggetti

Christianity and other religions

Theology - Asia

Philosophy, Asian

Asia Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Asian irregular theology : inculturation and emancipation -- Justification and self-cultivation : Christian faith and Buddhist enlightenment -- God and the mysterious place of the world : Judeo-Christian narrative in engagement with mystery of Tao -- God the Trinity : an interfaith reframing of the trinity with an Asian face -- Christian mission: Matteo Ricci and his legacy for Christian-Confucian renewal -- Religious pluralism : Asian Christianity and life horizon of world religions -- God and evolution : God and Sunyata in an evolutionary context -- The future of irregular theology in East Asia : Asian contextual theology : past, present, and future.

Sommario/riassunto

The project of constructing Asian irregular theology in East Asian perspective, based on life-word of Bamboo and social political reality of minjung, embraces Dr. Chung’s cross-cultural existence as he develops his long-standing interest and expertise in Christian minjung theology in new ways with the image of bamboo as a symbol for the theological perspective of grass roots marginality. Using the ancient Chinese story “The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove,” Dr. Chung engages with Christian eschatological discourse to support an aesthetical-utopian



theological ethics that is opposed to an ethics concerned with legitimation of a socio-economic status quo. In addition, Dr. Chung’s develops his deep commitment to the Lutheran theology of the cross and the suffering Christ through the Buddhist concept of dukkha (suffering) to create, in the end, a genuinely East Asian contextual theology