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Jesus of the East

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Jesus of the East

by Phuc Luu and Gregory Boyle

Why does our theology of salvation focus on forgiving sinners, but not on healing those wounded by sin?

Much of Western Christianity has subdued the narrative of Jesus as a Palestinian Jewish healer and liberator who served the sick and oppressed. But the Jesus of the Gospels is a revolutionary who stands with the sinned against, the wounded, and the marginalized. In Jesus of the East, author Phuc Luu re-narrates the life of Jesus to show how he made it his work to topple systems that privileged the few and disregarded the many, especially the poor and lowest.

In this provocative book, Luu offers a counter-narrative to Western Christianity, which for centuries has legitimized colonization and violence to prop up the powerful at the expense of the masses. Pulling from the tradition of the early Eastern church, the present work of theologians of the oppressed, and Luu’s own experiences as a Vietnamese immigrant, Jesus of the East offers a transformative vision of healing for the world.

For those living in the land between pain and hope, Luu’s prophetic words will renew our imaginations and draw us closer to the heart of God.
 

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INTRODUCTION
Minjung
 
  1. Vision             
Between Two Worlds
To See the Kingdom             
Western Visions of Jesus and the Kingdom    
Viet Kieu
 
  1. Birth, Beginnings, and the Body
I Am a Body
The Body, Descartes, and the Sciences
Black Bodies and the Body of Christ
Traversing the Divide          
 
  1. Sinners, Sin, Han, and the Mission of Jesus
The Gospel of the Han-ridden            
Sinners and the Sinned Against         
The Fight Between Augustine and Pelagius   
Ransom Imagery of the East
A Culture of Han  
Joining the Work of the Kingdom     
 
  1. God Against the Machine          
The Politics of Jesus              
Scarcity in a Nation of Prosperity     
Seeing the Image of God in Each Other
The Liberating Image of God              
Jesus and the Image of God
                 
  1. Wounds Deep Enough to Heal
Did God Do It?      
Crime and Punishment       
Violence as a Solution         
Healing ThroughHis Wounds            
Love Changes God
                 
  1. The Death of Death    
The Bitter Taste of Death   
The Creative Intersection of Han      
Touching the Wounds of Han
Death, Sin, and Han
                 
  1. The Birth of Kingdom
Alternative Histories
Reconciliation: Piecing Together Our Broken Selves
Justice: The Difference Between Fair and Right
Retributive Justice: An Eye for an Eye Wrongly Interpreted        
Restorative Justice: Renewal for All Creation
Distributive Justice: Correcting the Scales      
Justice and the Healing of Han          
Creating Communities of Healing
                 
Timeline of Events Listed in this Book
Bibliography    
Acknowledgments        
 
 

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