Constructing irregular theology : : bamboo and Minjung in East Asian perspective / / by Paul S. Chung.

• Superior document: Studies in systematic theology, v. 1
• Author: Chung, Paul S., 1958-
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in systematic theology (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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

Table of Contents

Introduction: Asian irregular theology : inculturation and emancipation -- Justification and self-cultivation : Christian faith and Buddhist enlightenment -- God and the mysterious place of the world : Judeo-Christian narrative in engagement with mystery of Tao -- God the Trinity : an interfaith reframing of the trinity with an Asian face -- Christian mission: Matteo Ricci and his legacy for Christian-Confucian renewal -- Religious pluralism : Asian Christianity and life horizon of world religions -- God and evolution : God and Sunyata in an evolutionary context -- The future of irregular theology in East Asia : Asian contextual theology : past, present, and future.