Toward an Ecumenical Christology for Asia
Asian theologians recognize that Asian theology must address two pressing issues: poverty and religiosity. Most Asian Christologies tend to address one to the exclusion of the other: the Cosmic Christ embraces religiosity: Jesus Christ Liberator confronts poverty: Jesus as pain-love of God comforts...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1994
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Missiology
Year: 1994, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-17 |
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| Summary: | Asian theologians recognize that Asian theology must address two pressing issues: poverty and religiosity. Most Asian Christologies tend to address one to the exclusion of the other: the Cosmic Christ embraces religiosity: Jesus Christ Liberator confronts poverty: Jesus as pain-love of God comforts the suffering. The Christologies of M. M. Thomas and Aloysius Pieris, in contrast, address both poverty and religiosity in Asia. In both Christologies Christ's presence extends to Asia's struggle for a new society which takes place beyond the church's boundaries. This similarity is not due, however, to identical christological starting points: Pieris begins with the historical Jesus of the synoptic Gospels and Thomas with the Cosmic Christ of Colossians 1:15–20. Rather, it is due to the attempt of both theologians to address Asian poverty and religiosity. |
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| ISSN: | 2051-3623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Missiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009182969402200101 |