Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Referencing and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II The Diversity of Reception
- Part III Ethics, Theology, and Critical Scholarship
- Part IV The Global Jesus Today
- 17 The Jewish Jesus in Christian and in Jewish Memory
- 18 The Racial Jesus
- 19 Jesus, Power, and the Global Poor
- 20 The Asian Faces of Jesus
- 21 Jesus of Africa
- Part V Outlook
- Bibliography
- Ancient Sources Index
- Subject Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
20 - The Asian Faces of Jesus
from Part IV - The Global Jesus Today
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2024
- The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Referencing and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II The Diversity of Reception
- Part III Ethics, Theology, and Critical Scholarship
- Part IV The Global Jesus Today
- 17 The Jewish Jesus in Christian and in Jewish Memory
- 18 The Racial Jesus
- 19 Jesus, Power, and the Global Poor
- 20 The Asian Faces of Jesus
- 21 Jesus of Africa
- Part V Outlook
- Bibliography
- Ancient Sources Index
- Subject Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
Summary
This typological survey of Asian Christologies examines leading missionaries and theological writers about Jesus from antiquity to the present. It raises critical hermeneutical issues regarding the indigenized faces of Jesus, Asian soteriological engagement with sociopolitical and religious contexts, and the role of languages and arts in Asian understandings of Jesus Christ. Jesus bears many faces, but his church in Asia – as is true also in other continents – remains dynamically catholic as well as indigenized – and precisely this dialogical tension of universality and indigeneity makes the church authentic and its mission transformative.
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- The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus , pp. 330 - 345Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024