In this volume, an attempt is undertaken to highlight the genesis, progress, and transformation of Asian contextual theology of minjung, introducing its historical point of departure, its development, and its transformation in light of younger Korean and Korean American scholars' endeavors. In this regard, the new Asian contextual theology, which is emerging, strives to integrate both minjung and the wisdom of World Religions into its own framework and direction, assuming the character of a public theology and remaining humble and open before God's mystery while featuring its association with minjung in a holistic way.

Editor - Paul S. Chung
Editor - Veli Matti Karkkainen
Editor - Kim Kyoung-Jae

"Beginning in 1973 with the publication of The Theological Declaration of Korean Christians, Minjung theology grasped the attention of the world. Its authors paid a high price for their commitment to the Korean people and especially to the exploited poor…. Although they were part of a worldwide liberation movement, they clearly did their own thinking and carried out their own scholarship. Minjung theology employed sophisticated scholarly methods learned from Western Christians. But it was a fully contextualized form of theology able to enter into discussion with theologians from other countries as an important expression of global Christian thought…. The heart of the book is made up of the contributions of Korean scholars. However, to add to its international character, the editors have included essays by North American and European theologians as well. Many of us are happy in this way to make any contribution we can to revitalizing discussion between progressive Korean theologians and the West."—John B. Cobb Jr., from the Foreword

"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 not a theology that has been made culturally indigenous, like 'yellow theology' before it. It 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. Minjung theology is also the first political theology to exist in Korea, inasmuch as it is bound up with the struggle for human and civil rights, and turns Christians from being a 'people of the church' into 'the congregation of the people.'"—Jürgen Moltmann, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tübingen, Germany

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Theology Between the East and West: A Radical Legacy

Practices, Politics, and Performance by Dr. Michael G. Cartwright
European Pietism Reviewed by Frederick Herzog
Constructing a Relational Cosmology
Jesus, the Parable of God by Dr. Eduard Schweizer
Ambushed by Grace by Dr. Thomas W. Currie
The Will of God and the Cross by Jonathan H. Rainbow
Christ in our Place: The Humanity of God in Christ for the Reconciliation of the World
"Education Has Nothing to Do with Theology" by Dr. Edward J. Newell
A Little Book of Christian Questions and Responses by Theodore Beza
Poverty in the Theology of John Calvin by Dr. Bonnie L. Pattison
Evangelicalism and Karl Barth by Phillip R. Thorne
My Father-In-Law by Max Zellweger-Barth
Coram Deo by Caryn D. Riswold
Orthodoxy and Difference by Dr. Dmitri Sidorov
From the Margins
Schleiermacher on Christian Consciousness of God's Work in History by Abraham Varghese Kunnuthara
The Holy Spirit in the Theology of Karl Barth by John Thompson
Geoffrey Fisher by David Hein
A Gentleman in Every Slum by David B. McIlhiney
On the Christianity of Theology by Franz Overbeck
Freedom and Civilization Among the Greeks by A. J. Festugiere
Female and Male: The Cultic Personnel: The Bible and the Rest of the Ancient Near East by Richard A. Henshaw
The Loss and Recovery of Transcendence by John C. Robertson
Calvin's Doxology by Pamela Ann Moeller
Fire From the Heights by Moelwyn Merchant
Jesus Christ and Creation in the Theology of John Calvin by Peter Wyatt
New Testament Traditions and Apocryphal Narratives by Francois Bovon
Jesus and the Word by C. K. Barrett
"Those Who Call Themselves Jews" by Dr. Philip L. Mayo
Consenting to God and Nature by Dr. Byron C. Bangert
The Epigones by William A. McComish
The Aims of Jesus by Ben F. Meyer
R.S. Thomas: Poet of the Hidden God by D.Z. Phillips
How to do Biblical Theology by Peter Stuhlmacher
Where is My Home? by Dr. Zdenek Bednar
Asian Contextual Theology for the Third Millennium
Searching for Lost Coins by Ann Loades
Tradition Renewed
Polemic in the Book of Hebrews by Lloyd Kim
The Subjective Eye
Renewing Tradition
Reflections of Renaissance England by Dr. Marie-Helene Davies
Theology Beyond Christendom
Enigmas and Powers
Colonial Presbyterianism
The Kitchen Saint and the Heritage of Islam by Brother Lawrence
The Reformed Pastor by John W. Nevin D.D.
The Sacred Text by Ronald F. Satta
Faithfulness and the Purpose of Hebrews by Matthew J. Marohl
Lo, I Tell You a Mystery by Dr. David A. Ackerman
The Tangled Bank by Michael S. Hogue
The Hermeneutical Quest
Christus Faber by Ben F. Meyer
History and Theology by Dr. Piet B. Boshoff
The Holy Spirit and the Renewal of All Things by T. David Beck
The Little Church that Refused to Die by William W. Moore
Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis by Trevor Dobbs Ph.D.
A Place Somewhat Apart by Dr. Philip E. Harrold
Critical Realism and the New Testament by Ben F. Meyer
Theosis
The Triune God by E. L. Mascall
Jeshua by Moelwyn Merchant
Salvaging Wesley's Agenda by Kevin Twain Lowery
The Trial of Jesus Continues by Dr. Rudolf Pesch
Basic Human Rights and the Humanitarian Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa by Gabriel Andrew Msoka
Living Devotions by Mary Clark Moschella
Revitalizing Theological Epistemology by Steven B. Sherman
Martin Luther and Buddhism by Paul S. Chung
Go Figure!
A Church Historian's Odyssey by Horton Davies
Theology of Anticipation by Anette Ejsing
Who Needs a New Covenant? by Michael D. Morrison
God With Us by Joseph Haroutunian
Saints: Visible, Orderly, and Catholic by Alan P.F. Sell
Schleiermacher's Preaching, Dogmatics, and Biblical Criticism by Catherine L. Kelsey
The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Melanesia and Micronesia, 1850-1875 by Ralph M. Wiltgen
The Arminian Confession of 1621
Calvin's Concept of the Law by Dr. I. John Hesselink
The Present and the Past by Richard J. Ginn
The Way of Theology in Karl Barth
Seasons of the Heart by Sara Henderson Hay
The Neo-Orthodox Theology of W. W. Bryden by John Vissers
Gladstone: The Making of a Christian Politician by Dr. Peter J. Jagger
On This Rock by Donald G. Miller
The Theology of Electricity by Ernst Benz
The Tondrakian Movement by N.V. Nersessian