The non-western Jesus
Subtitle: Jesus as Bodhisattva, Avatara, Guru, Prophet, Ancestor, or Healer
By: Martien E. Brinkman ; translated by Henry and Lucy Jansen.
Publisher: Equinox Pub. Ltd.; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781845533977; 9781845533984
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Miscellanea
Work titles: Niet-Westerse Jezus.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Where is Jesus at home?; title: The cultural embedding of the Gospel; title: Must Jesus always remain Greek?; title: The remembered Jesus; title: Who decides?; title: Something new about Jesus?; title: Double transformation; title: Methodology; title: No transmission without solidarity; title: Inculturation : between confirmation and denial; title: How do they help us?; title: The Asian religious context; title: Sources of Asian theology; title: The Bible and other Asian holy books (Samartha); title: From Israel to Asia : a theological leap (song); title: Overwhelming poverty as a theological source (pieris); title: The unique nature of Asian theology; title: The critical Asian principle; title: Asian theology in the whole of world Christianity; title: The interwovenness of the divine and the human; title: The Chinese Jesus; title: The Chinese context; title: The image of Jesus among the first Christians in China; title: Mediation in Confucianism; title: Mediation in Taoism; title: Mediation in Chinese Buddhism; title: The current theological state of affairs in China; title: Jesus as Bodhisattva; title: Jesus in a Buddhist context; title: A historical comparison; title: A contemporary comparison; title: An external mediator of salvation?; title: The freedom of the Bodhisattvas and of Jesus; title: How personal is the relationship?; title: The nature of the mediation; title: Double transformation; title: The Japanese and Korean Jesus; title: The Japanese Jesus; title: The attitude of Japanese Christians towards the state; title: The Kakure Christians; title: A Jesus for the Japanese; title: The pain of God; title: Endo's Japanese theology; title: In dialogue with Buddhism; title: The Korean Jesus; title: The Confucian veneration of ancestors; title: The shamanistic veneration of ancestors; title: Theological implications; title: Minjung theology; title: Yin and Yang; title: Karl Barth and Asian theology; title: The Indian Jesus; title: Historical encounters; title: The Thomas Christians in India; title: Hindu voices on Jesus; title: The di-unity of Jesus and God; title: Examples of reflection on Jesus; title: Raimundo Panikkar's cosmotheandrism; title: Stanley Samartha's unbound Christ; title: Jesus as Avatara and Guru; title: Jesus as Avatara; title: Jesus as Guru; title: The Indonesian Jesus; title: The Indonesian religious context; title: The political-cultural context; title: Tawhid and Jesus divine sonship; title: Indonesian images of Jesus; title: Two approaches; title: The dialogue approach; title: The contextual approach; title: Contextual theology as interreligious dialogue; title: Further Indonesian interpretations of Jesus; title: The Agama Jawa; title: A Javaanse crucifix; title: Yesus Sang Guru; title: Jesus as the Javanese prophet; title: The African Jesus; title: The African religious context; title: Missions in Africa; title: Characteristics of African theology; title: The relationship with the Supreme God; title: The new African theology; title: The cross and suffering in Africa; title: African images of Jesus; title: Jesus as ancestor; title: Jesus as healer; title: Methodical conclusions; title: Too western; title: Double transformation as liminality; title: The nature of the mediation; title: Substantial conclusions; title: Jesus as Bodhisattva; title: Jesus as Avatara; title: Jesus as Guru; title: Jesus as Prophet; title: Jesus as Ancestor; title: Jesus as Healer; title: Was Jesus already in Asia and Africa before the missionaries came?