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20 - The Asian Faces of Jesus

from Part IV - The Global Jesus Today

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2024

Markus Bockmuehl
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University of Oxford
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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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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Anderson, Allan and Tang, Edmond, eds. 2005. Asian and Pentecostal: The Charismatic Face of Christianity in Asia. Oxford: Regnum/APTS Press.Google Scholar
Gene, Green, Pardue, Steve T., and Yeo, K. K., eds. 2020. Majority World Theology: Christian Doctrine in Global Context. Downers Grove: IVP Academic.Google Scholar
Kärkkäinen, Veli‐Matti. 2010. “Christology in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.” In The Blackwell Companion to Jesus, edited by Burkett, Delbert, 375–93. Oxford: Wiley‐Blackwell.Google Scholar
Sugirtharajah, R. S. 2018. Jesus in Asia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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