Multicultural Christology - A Korean Immigrant Perspective

This book explores the multicultural and multilingual dimensions of Jesus' life and ministry in first century Galilee. The study focuses on Jesus' encounters with ethnic minorities in the New Testament and the so-called «Mission Instructions» (Luke 10:2-16), which show Jesus as a reconciler of cultures. The author connects the multicultural-multilingual life and ministry of Jesus to the life of Korean immigrants in the North American context. Jesus is presented as the Christ with whom they can identify in the context of their painful marginalisation.
This book is essential for those who try to develop a theology for ethnic minorities in the present multicultural world.

List of contents

Contents: Immigrant Experience as a Theological Locus - H. Richard Niebuhr as Pioneer of Immigrant Theology - The Significance of the Historical Jesus for Christology - Jesus' Life and Ministry in His Multicultural-Multilingual Context - Christ the Reconciler of Cultures - Korean Immigrant - Christ and Culture - Multicultural Christology - Asian Theology.

About the author

The Author: Chun Hoi Heo grew up in Korea and emigrated to Canada in 1990. He received his Th.M. and Th.D degrees from Knox College, University of Toronto in Canada. He teaches Asian Theology at Knox College and works as a senior pastor at Toronto Evangelical Church of the World.

Report

«This is a remarkable piece of inter-disciplinary work, combining Systematic Theology and New Testament studies. Despite the great diversity of its sources, this book presents a unified single argument persistently demonstrating the multi-cultural, multi-lingual character of Jesus and the relevance of this for a contextual Korean immigrant theology.» (Dr. Harold Wells, Professor of Systematic Theology, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto)

Product details

• Authors: Chun-Hoi Heo, Chun-Hoi Heo
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9783039107636
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3910763-6
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 13 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 350 g
• Series: Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums / Etudes d'histoire interculturelle du christianisme / Studies in the Intercultural History o; Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums / Etudes d'histoire interculturelle du chri; Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums / Etudes d'histoire interculturelle du christianisme / Studies in the Intercultural History o; Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums / Etudes d'histoire interculturelle du chri
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity