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Purity and Power: Jesus as a Tantric Vīra
For the past 2000 years, Christians have been using terms such as “Messiah,” “Christ,” and “Son of God,” to reflect on the nature of the divinity of...
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The Diasporic Body of Jesus: A Feminist Ethic of Diasporas
With a deep appreciation of transnational feminist scholars’ critical scholarship on the diaspora, this chapter reflects on a liberative diasporic...
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One Reality, Not Two: Bonhoeffer, Jesus Christ, and a Membraned World
This chapter explores a non-dualistic reading of Dietrich Bonhoeffer grounded in Bonhoeffer’s own rejection of God-world dualism in his Ethics, his...
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‘The Poor Bugger Has Suffered Enough’: Vernon Ah Kee, Warwick Thornton, and the Unmaking of a White Jesus
This chapter reflects on artworks by two prominent Aboriginal artists: Vernon Ah Kee and Warwick Thornton. In particular, the author reflects on...
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“I Can’t Un-Meet Jesus” LGBTQA+ Faith Reconstruction
After fleshing out the experiences of faith deconstruction in Chap. 6 , this chapter explores the other...
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Unsettling Jesus Christ: Indigenous and Settler Christologies in the Aftermath of Colonisation
This chapter proposes that in the aftermath of colonisation at least two different Christologies or images of Christ are required. First, the author...
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Jesus the Christ as Israel’s Only Fulfillment
Lindbeck comes in his later work to critique the idea that the church fulfills Israel. He instead argues that Jesus is Israel’s only fulfillment. He...
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Jesus Christ, Once Was a Savage! Selective Memory, Staged Identity, and Stolen Spaces
This chapter interrogates the complex intersection between memory, identity, and place in Aotearoa New Zealand. The author demonstrates how in the...
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The Politics of Jesus’ Love: K. H. Ting, Contextual Interpretation of the Gospels and Images of Jesus in Modern China
This chapter investigates how K. H. Ting, one of the most important leaders of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), constructs Jesus’ love and...
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Jesus Does a Haka Boogie: Tangata Whenua Theology
This chapter proposes an every-day, grass-roots expression of a lived theology. Ihu Karaiti (Jesus Christ) serves as a metaphor for a renewed...
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What Did Jesus Mean in John 14.6?
In John 14:6, I argue that the Johannine Jesus made several extraordinary ontological claims. By calling himself “the way,” Jesus declared himself...
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Why Did the Resurrected Jesus Upbraid Thomas?
The Johannine account of the resurrected Jesus’ appearance to Thomas is frequently taken as Jesus’ insistence that true faith does not require...
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The Second Category: Traditional Jewish Monotheism , Christian Binitarianism, and Christological Monotheism
This chapter explores how the relationship between two distinct figures—Yahweh and Jesus—may be considered ‘monotheism’ or, better, ‘Christological...
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Gandhi the Artist
Daya Krishna, one of the most original voices of contemporary Indian philosophy, writes that “Gandhi is as rare as…a Shakespeare or a Michelangelo”...
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What Is the Nature of Jesus’ Oneness with the Father?
This chapter contends that the Fourth Gospel presents Jesus as ontologically equal but functionally subordinate to God the Father. According to John,...
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Apologetics and the Provisionality of the Living Jesus: Hans Frei’s Contribution
Rejecting conservative and liberal apologetics for Christian faith and biblical interpretation as reductionistic, Drew Collins draws on the work of...
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According to John 8, Did Abraham in His Lifetime See Jesus?
Undoubtedly the best-known claim to deity ascribed to Jesus in the New Testament is John 8:58. However, this chapter argues that the Johannine Jesus...
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When Buddha and Jesus Danced
Julia Kwan’s 2005 film Eve and Fire Horse offers a glimpse into the life of nine-year-old Eve Eng and her Chinese Canadian family in the 1970s....
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The Ethics of Liberation of Rosemary Nkoyo Edet and Peggy Mulambya-Kabonde
Recognizing the subjugation of women in various spheres of life and empowered by their theological prowess, Rosemary Nkoyo Edet and Peggy...
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Introduction
Within the African context, early missionaries transmitted their knowledge of God and religious experiences from the perspective of western cultural...