This book is about the meaning that is ascribed to Jesus in contemporary, non-Western contexts. Our guideline for assessing those strongly divergent meanings will be the term double transformation. This term entails that when a concept is transferred from one context to another, both the giver as well as the receiver are changed. In another context, the concept in question (the giver) receives a somewhat different meaning, whereas that concept also gives something new to, or changes, the new context (the receiver). In Jesus' case, this transference event (inculturation process) is more complicated, because the meaning attributed to him is always passed on in a community of transmission that wants to preserve unity with the past as well as with as many fellow believers as possible in the present. The methodological justification of an argument for a way of dealing with the many complications of this process that preserves this unity finally ends in the proposition that genuine transfer always presupposes solidarity with the new context. This solidarity will also include a critical element, however, because the Gospel-culture relationship is never a one-to-one relationship. There is always critical space between culture and the Gospel.