Title: Jesus of the East : reclaiming the gospel for the wounded /
Authors: Luu, Phuc
Year: 2020
Subjects: Jesus Christ Biography History and criticism.; Jesus Christ Political and social views.; Jesus Christ; Christianity Controversial literature; Church and social problems; Eastern churches Doctrines; Biography; Christianity; Church and social problems; Eastern churches Doctrines; Political and social views
Abstract: "Much of Western Christianity has subdued the narrative of Jesus as a Palestinian Jewish healer and liberator who served the sick and oppressed. But the Jesus of the Gospels is a revolutionary who stands with the sinned against, the wounded, and the marginalized. In Jesus of the East, author Phuc Luu re-narrates the life of Jesus to show how he made it his work to topple systems that privileged the few and disregarded the many, especially the poor and lowest. In this provocative book, Luu offers a counter-narrative to Western Christianity, which for centuries has legitimized colonization and violence to prop up the powerful at the expense of the masses. Pulling from the tradition of the early Eastern church, the present work of theologians of the oppressed, and Luu's own experiences as a Vietnamese immigrant, Jesus of the East offers a transformative vision of healing for the world"--
Contents: Foreword / by Gregory Boyle -- Vision -- Birth, beginnings, and the body -- Sinners, sin, han, and the mission of Jesus -- God against the machine -- Healing from the depths of woundedness -- The death of death -- The birth of kingdom.