Asian Contextual Theology for the Third Millennium

Paul S. Chung is Assistant Professor of Lutheran Witness and World Christianity at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. He regularly publishes articles in religious journals, and is the author of Martin Luther and Buddhism (2002). He is primarily interested in extending and deepening the horizons of Reformation theology in an Asian interreligious context.

Theology, May/June 2011 ...this book makes a useful contribution to Asian contextual theology which serious researchers cannot afford to bypass.A" Minjung theology is the first liberation theology to come from Asia, with critical questions put to the First World, and questions too challenging the modernization of South Korea according to Western standards. - Minjung theology is ... a contextual theology of the suffering people in Korea, and is therefore open for people all over the world, the people of God's kingdom whom Jesus called blessed." Jurgen Moltmann, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tubingen, Germany "Specialists in the field will want to include this volume in their library." Beau Pihlaja, in Theological Book Review " - this book makes a useful contribution to Asian contextual theology which serious researchers cannot afford to bypass." Peniel Jesudason Rufus Rajkumar, United Theological College, Bangalore, in Theology

• Foreword by John B. Cobb, Jr.; Acknowledgments; Introduction by Paul S. Chung ; Part I: Asian Contextual Theology and Minjung Praxis; Christian Theology and Its Participation in the Social Historical Realm - Kim Chai-Choon; Is Dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity Possible? - From a Christian Perspective - Kim Chai-Choon; Jesus and Ochlos in the Context of His Galilean Ministry - Ahn Byung-Mu; Missio Dei and Two Stories in Coalescence - Suh Nam-Dong; Minjung Theology for the Ruling Classes - Jurgen Moltmann; Minjung and Asian Pentecostals - Koo D. Yun; Part II: Asian Contextual Theology and Interfaith Diapraxis; A Mapping of Asian Liberative Theology in Quest for the Mystery of God amidst the Minjung Reality and World Religions - Veli-Matti Karkkainen; Dietrich Bonhoeffer Seen from Asian Minjung Theology and the Fourth Eye of Socially Engaged Buddhism - Paul S. Chung; Christianity and Culture: A Hermeneutic of Mission Theology in an East Asian Context - Kim Kyoung-Jae; Pneumatological Perspectives on World Religions: The Cosmic Spirit and Ch'i - Koo D. Yun; The Christian Witness to Buddhists - John B. Cobb, Jr.; Part III: Asian Contextual Theology in Dialogue with Judaism; Why the Talmud Interests Me as a Christian - Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt; Recent Developments in the Jewish-Christian Relationship in Europe after the Shoah - Andreas Pangritz; Jewish and Christian Theology: The Essence of Christian Theology from the Perspective of the Aggadic Tradition of Judaism - Choi In-Sik; The Mystery of God and Tao in Jewish-Christian-Taoist Context - Paul S. Chung; Part IV: Asian Contextual Theology in a Multi-Religious Tapestry; Christianity and the Religious World of East Asians: The Principle of Three Religions as One - Chung Dai-Wi; A Conception of an Ecological Theology of Spirit and Ch'i - Kim Kyoung-Jae; Mission and Inculturation in the Thought of Matteo Ricci - Paul S. Chung; The Korean Self-Understanding of God from the Perspective of Donghak and Its Thought of the God Experience - Kim Kyoung-Jae; Global Ethic for a New World Order - Hans Kung; Epilogue by Craig L. Nessan; Contributors; Index.