The non-western Jesus : Jesus as bodhisattva, avatara, guru, prophet, ancestor, or healer / Martien E. Brinkman ; translated by Henry and Lucy Jansen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brinkman, Martien E. (Martien Everhardus), 1950-

Series:

Cross cultural theologies.

Cross cultural theologies

Standardized Title:

Niet-Westerse Jezus. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Miscellanea.

Jesus Christ.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The centre of gravity of contemporary Christianity has shifted to the southern hemisphere where, with the exception of Latin America, almost all Christians are minorities in their home countries. Christians in Asia live amongst Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Shamanist or Taoist majorities and this context shapes the local Christian theology. The same is true in Africa where traditional religions and beliefs influence African Christians. Central to this change in both Africa and Asia is the creation of a new Jesus, one who accretes local beliefs and concerns and who, in that process, is transformed. The Non-Western Jesus reveals how a new theology - with its own images and concepts - is coming into being. A wide range of embodiments of Jesus is examined: Jesus as Avatara and Guru in the Indian context; as Bodhisattva in the Buddhist context; and Jesus within Asian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, African and Indonesian religious contexts.

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

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

Substantial conclusions

Jesus as Prophet

Jesus as Ancestor

Jesus as Healer

Was Jesus already in Asia and Africa before the missionaries came?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-322) and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-49042-8

1-315-71093-5

1-322-50981-6

1-317-49043-6

1-84553-726-2

9781315710938

OCLC:

898771539