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Asian Case Studies on Translating Christianity

Toward God’s Self-Communication and the Trinitarian End of Asian Theology

Asian Case Studies on Translating Christianity

Toward God’s Self-Communication and the Trinitarian End of Asian Theology

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9781666942200
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 15/03/2024
Width: 15.8 cm
Height: 23.7 cm
Asian Case Studies on Translating Christianity brings historical expressions of Asian Christianity into contemporary theological conversation. The book offers case studies of Jingjiao Christianity in Tang China, the Jesuit mission in Ming China, indigenous theology in colonial Korea, and contemporary Asian-American theology. The case studies especially examine how the names and understandings of the Trinity have been changed in the processes of borrowing, erasing, and elevating the meanings of Eastern local concepts to translate the message of Christianity. Not only are these diverse expressions of Christianity unique and valuable in and of themselves, but they testify that diverse understandings are a God-given phenomenon. Heejun Yang draws on contemporary theological hermeneutics to argue that it is the self-communicative nature of God that helps articulate the diverse understandings of God in these cases. Yang posits the Triune God as both the starting and ending points of the Christian hermeneutic process and claims that this understanding can be a way for the church to embrace different Christian communities while moving forward in their own unique complexities.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Multiplicity of Christianity from the Transcendental Perspective
Chapter 1: Jingjiao Christianity in China
Chapter 2: Jesuit Mission in Ming China
Chapter 3: Indigenous Theology in Colonial Korea
Chapter 4: Asian American Theology in the Post-colonial Era
Conclusion: The Trinitarian End of Asian Theology
Bibliography
About the Author

Heejun Yang

Heejun Yang is adjunct professor at Greensboro College.