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The non-western Jesus Jesus as bodhisattva, avatara, guru, prophet, ancestor, or healer /

Main Author: Brinkman, M. E., 1950-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Dutch
Published: London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2009.
Subjects:
Jesus Christ
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10386865
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?

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