Paul S. Chung is an Associate Professor of Mission and World Christianity at Luther Seminary. His books related to constructive theology and missiological hermeneutic include Martin Luther and Buddhism (2007) and The Cave and The Butterfly.

Chung's book is an important contribution to interreligious solidarity towards compassionate justice within the context of imperial capitalism creating a dangerous crisis for human life and earth. He creatively awakens the wisdom of Confucianism and Daoism in postcolonial perspective in order to reread history from below, giving the victims of western civilization a voice and designing a new epistemology transcending the dominating reductionist rationalism. This is liberation theology at its best.

• AcknowledgementsForeword by John BerthrongPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Hermeneutical Theory and Human Experience1. Interpretation and Experience2. Interpretation and Life Connection3. Phenomenology and Hermeneutics4. Understanding and Linguistic ExistencePart II: Intercivilizational Encounters: Interpretation and Ethical Subject5. Mediation: The Hermeneutical Self and Moral Self6. Interpretation and Ethics of Virtue: Aristotle Revisited7. Intercivilizational Encounters: The Mean in Confucian Ethics8. Thomas Aquinas: Theological Virtue Ethics and Analogy9. A Comparative Religious Study of Aquinas and MengziPart III: Aftermath of Modernity: Discourse Reason and Ethics of the Other10. Interpretation in Long Route and Social Location11. Discourse Ethics and Communicative Rationality12. Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Neo-Kantian Framework13. Aesthetics of Existence and Ethics of AlterityPart IV: Intercivilizational Reconstruction in the Aftermath of Colonialism14. Intercivilizational Reconstruction and Global-Critical Inquiry15. Engaging the Cave and the Butterfly: Dialectics of Enlightenment and Neo-Confucian Self16. Interpretation as Conflict and Creativity: Retrieval of Wang Yangming17. Concluding Reflection: The Hermeneutical Self and an Ethical DifferenceEpilogue: Interpretive Reason and Postcolonial IrregularityBibliographyIndex

Paul S. Chung is an Associate Professor of Mission and World Christianity at Luther Seminary. His books related to constructive theology and missiological hermeneutic include Martin Luther and Buddhism (2007) and The Cave and The Butterfly.

Chung's book is an important contribution to interreligious solidarity towards compassionate justice within the context of imperial capitalism creating a dangerous crisis for human life and earth. He creatively awakens the wisdom of Confucianism and Daoism in postcolonial perspective in order to reread history from below, giving the victims of western civilization a voice and designing a new epistemology transcending the dominating reductionist rationalism. This is liberation theology at its best.

• AcknowledgementsForeword by John BerthrongPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Hermeneutical Theory and Human Experience1. Interpretation and Experience2. Interpretation and Life Connection3. Phenomenology and Hermeneutics4. Understanding and Linguistic ExistencePart II: Intercivilizational Encounters: Interpretation and Ethical Subject5. Mediation: The Hermeneutical Self and Moral Self6. Interpretation and Ethics of Virtue: Aristotle Revisited7. Intercivilizational Encounters: The Mean in Confucian Ethics8. Thomas Aquinas: Theological Virtue Ethics and Analogy9. A Comparative Religious Study of Aquinas and MengziPart III: Aftermath of Modernity: Discourse Reason and Ethics of the Other10. Interpretation in Long Route and Social Location11. Discourse Ethics and Communicative Rationality12. Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Neo-Kantian Framework13. Aesthetics of Existence and Ethics of AlterityPart IV: Intercivilizational Reconstruction in the Aftermath of Colonialism14. Intercivilizational Reconstruction and Global-Critical Inquiry15. Engaging the Cave and the Butterfly: Dialectics of Enlightenment and Neo-Confucian Self16. Interpretation as Conflict and Creativity: Retrieval of Wang Yangming17. Concluding Reflection: The Hermeneutical Self and an Ethical DifferenceEpilogue: Interpretive Reason and Postcolonial IrregularityBibliographyIndex

Paul S. Chung is an Associate Professor of Mission and World Christianity at Luther Seminary. His books related to constructive theology and missiological hermeneutic include Martin Luther and Buddhism (2007) and The Cave and The Butterfly.

Chung's book is an important contribution to interreligious solidarity towards compassionate justice within the context of imperial capitalism creating a dangerous crisis for human life and earth. He creatively awakens the wisdom of Confucianism and Daoism in postcolonial perspective in order to reread history from below, giving the victims of western civilization a voice and designing a new epistemology transcending the dominating reductionist rationalism. This is liberation theology at its best.

• AcknowledgementsForeword by John BerthrongPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Hermeneutical Theory and Human Experience1. Interpretation and Experience2. Interpretation and Life Connection3. Phenomenology and Hermeneutics4. Understanding and Linguistic ExistencePart II: Intercivilizational Encounters: Interpretation and Ethical Subject5. Mediation: The Hermeneutical Self and Moral Self6. Interpretation and Ethics of Virtue: Aristotle Revisited7. Intercivilizational Encounters: The Mean in Confucian Ethics8. Thomas Aquinas: Theological Virtue Ethics and Analogy9. A Comparative Religious Study of Aquinas and MengziPart III: Aftermath of Modernity: Discourse Reason and Ethics of the Other10. Interpretation in Long Route and Social Location11. Discourse Ethics and Communicative Rationality12. Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Neo-Kantian Framework13. Aesthetics of Existence and Ethics of AlterityPart IV: Intercivilizational Reconstruction in the Aftermath of Colonialism14. Intercivilizational Reconstruction and Global-Critical Inquiry15. Engaging the Cave and the Butterfly: Dialectics of Enlightenment and Neo-Confucian Self16. Interpretation as Conflict and Creativity: Retrieval of Wang Yangming17. Concluding Reflection: The Hermeneutical Self and an Ethical DifferenceEpilogue: Interpretive Reason and Postcolonial IrregularityBibliographyIndex