The non-western Jesus Jesus as bodhisattva, avatara, guru, prophet, ancestor, or healer / Martien E. Brinkman ; translated by Henry and Lucy Jansen.
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Online Access: | Electronic book from Proquest Ebook Central Academic Complete |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English Dutch |
Published: | London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2009. |
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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?