An edition of The non-western Jesus (2008)

The non-western Jesus

Jesus as Bodhisattva, Avatara, Guru, Prophet, Ancestor, or Healer

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An edition of The non-western Jesus (2008)

The non-western Jesus

Jesus as Bodhisattva, Avatara, Guru, Prophet, Ancestor, or Healer

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The non-western Jesus: Jesus as Bodhisattva, Avatara, Guru, Prophet, Ancestor, or Healer
2008, Equinox Pub. Ltd., Routledge
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Table of Contents

Where is Jesus at home?
The cultural embedding of the Gospel
Must Jesus always remain Greek?
The remembered Jesus
Who decides?
Something new about Jesus?
Double transformation
Methodology
No transmission without solidarity
Inculturation : between confirmation and denial
How do they help us?
The Asian religious context
Sources of Asian theology
The Bible and other Asian holy books (Samartha)
From Israel to Asia : a theological leap (song)
Overwhelming poverty as a theological source (pieris)
The unique nature of Asian theology
The critical Asian principle
Asian theology in the whole of world Christianity
The interwovenness of the divine and the human
The Chinese Jesus
The Chinese context
The image of Jesus among the first Christians in China
Mediation in Confucianism
Mediation in Taoism
Mediation in Chinese Buddhism
The current theological state of affairs in China
Jesus as Bodhisattva
Jesus in a Buddhist context
A historical comparison
A contemporary comparison
An external mediator of salvation?
The freedom of the Bodhisattvas and of Jesus
How personal is the relationship?
The nature of the mediation
Double transformation
The Japanese and Korean Jesus
The Japanese Jesus
The attitude of Japanese Christians towards the state
The Kakure Christians
A Jesus for the Japanese
The pain of God
Endo's Japanese theology
In dialogue with Buddhism
The Korean Jesus
The Confucian veneration of ancestors
The shamanistic veneration of ancestors
Theological implications
Minjung theology
Yin and Yang
Karl Barth and Asian theology
The Indian Jesus
Historical encounters
The Thomas Christians in India
Hindu voices on Jesus
The di-unity of Jesus and God
Examples of reflection on Jesus
Raimundo Panikkar's cosmotheandrism
Stanley Samartha's unbound Christ
Jesus as Avatara and Guru
Jesus as Avatara
Jesus as Guru
The Indonesian Jesus
The Indonesian religious context
The political-cultural context
Tawhid and Jesus divine sonship
Indonesian images of Jesus
Two approaches
The dialogue approach
The contextual approach
Contextual theology as interreligious dialogue
Further Indonesian interpretations of Jesus
The Agama Jawa
A Javaanse crucifix
Yesus Sang Guru
Jesus as the Javanese prophet
The African Jesus
The African religious context
Missions in Africa
Characteristics of African theology
The relationship with the Supreme God
The new African theology
The cross and suffering in Africa
African images of Jesus
Jesus as ancestor
Jesus as healer
Methodical conclusions
Too western
Double transformation as liminality
The nature of the mediation
Substantial conclusions
Jesus as Bodhisattva
Jesus as Avatara
Jesus as Guru
Jesus as Prophet
Jesus as Ancestor
Jesus as Healer
Was Jesus already in Asia and Africa before the missionaries came?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
London, Oakville, CT

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
232.09
Library of Congress
BT304.94 .B7513 2008, BT304.94.B7513 2008, BT304.94 .B7513 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
376

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23155740M
ISBN 13
9781845533977, 9781845533984
LCCN
2008008692
OCLC/WorldCat
716590729, 213358037
Goodreads
7300052
3848667

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