| Constructing Irregular Theology: Bamboo and Minjung in East Asian Perspective Contributor(s): Chung, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004174176 ISBN-13: 9789004174177 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $149.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: Drawing on the irregularity of God's speech event, and based on the profound knowledge of philosophy and religious tradition in East Asia, an attempt is creatively undertaken to construct Asian irregular and systematic theology which means a new paradigm shift proposing cross-cultural theology of inculturation and emancipation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | History - Religion | Christian Theology - General - Religion | Eastern |
| Dewey: 230.095 |
| LCCN: 2009010949 |
| Series: Studies in Systematic Theology |
| Physical Information: 236 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |