Asian Christologies

The image is “Meredakan Angin Ribut (Calm The Storm)” by Ketut Lasia (Bali)

Alangaram, A. Christ of the Asian Peoples: Towards an Asian Contextual Christology: Based on the Documents of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences. Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation, 2001.

Amaladoss, Michael. The Asian Jesus. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006.

Asis, Michael Demetrius H. “Toward A Filipino Christology.” Budhi 22, no. 2 (2018): 1–41.

Bong, Sharon A. “The Suffering Christ and the Asian Body,” in Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women’s Theology, edited by Pui-lan Kwok, 186–93. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2010.

Chung, Hyun Kyung. “Asian Christologies and People’s Religions.” Voices from the Third World 19, no. 1 (1996): 214–27.

De Mesa, José M. “Making Salvation Concrete and Jesus Real: Trends in Asian Christology.” Exchange 30, no. 1 (2001): 1–17.

Fabella, Virginia. “Christology from an Asian Woman’s Perspective,” in Asian Faces of Jesus, edited by R. S. Sugirtharajah, 211–22. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993.

Gener, Timoteo D. “Christologies in Asia: Trends and Reflections,” in Jesus without Borders: Christology in the Majority World, edited by Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, and K. K. Yeo, 59–79. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2014.

George, Samuel. “Jesus the Peedith Sevāk-Sardār: Towards a Relevant Christology in India.” Asia Journal of Theology 27, no. 1 (2013): 106–30.

Harmakaputra, Hans A. “Toward an Indonesian Postcolonial Christology: Discerning Some Key Elements.” Exchange 45, no. 2 (2016): 173–93.

Ji-Sun Kim, Grace. “Revisioning Christ.” Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology 28 (2001): 82–92.

Küster, Volker. “‘… and Foolishness to Gentiles’: Images of Christ From Africa and Asia.” Mission Studies 12, no. 1 (1995): 95–112.

Kuzhuvelil, M. V. “Jesus Christ the Sanatana.” Jeevadhara 27, no. 161 (1997): 336–47.

Kyung, Chung Hyun. “Who is Jesus for Asian Women?,” in Asian Faces of Jesus, edited by R. S. Sugirtharajah, 223–46. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993.

Levison, John R., and Priscilla Pope-Levison. “Toward an Ecumenical Christology for Asia.” Missiology 22, no. 1 (1994): 3–17.

Mastra, I. Wayan. “Christology in the Context of the Life and Religion of the Balinese.” In Sharing Jesus in the Two Thirds World, 157–74. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1983.

Nasimiyu-Wasike, Anne. “Christology and an African Woman’s Experience.” In Faces of Jesus in Africa, edited by Robert J. Schreiter, 70–81. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995.

Orevillo-Montenegro, Muriel. The Jesus of Asian Women. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2007.

Parappally, J. “Jesus of the Poor and Christ of Religion.” Third Millennium 2, no. 4 (1999): 78–87.

Parratt, John. The Other Jesus: Christology in Asian Perspective. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012.

Phan, Peter C. “Jesus the Christ with an Asian Face.” Theological Studies 57, no. 3 (1996): 399–430.

Pieris, Aloysius. “Christ Beyond Dogma: Doing Christology in the Context of the Religions and the Poor.” Louvain Studies 25, no. 3 (2000): 187–231.

Song, Choan-Seng. “Oh, Jesus, Here with Us!,” in Asian Faces of Jesus, edited by R. S. Sugirtharajah, 131–48. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993.

Song, Choan-Seng. “Role of Christology in the Christian Encounter with Eastern Religions.” South East Asia Journal of Theology 5, no. 3 (1964): 13–31.

Sugirtharajh, Rasiah S. “Jesus in Saffron Robes?: The ‘Other’ Jesus Whom Recent Biographers Forget.” Studies in World Christianity 1, no. 2 (1995): 103–10.

Tang, Edmond. “The Cosmic Christ – the Search for a Chinese theology.” Studies in World Christianity 1, no. 2 (1995): 131–42.

Thangaraj, M. Thomas. The Crucified Guru: An Experiment in Cross-Cultural Christology. Maryknoll, NY: Abingdon Press, 1994.

Thomas, M. M. “Christology and Pluralistic Consciousness.” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 10, no. 3 (1986): 106–8. 

Thomas, M. M. “The Absoluteness of Jesus Christ and Christ-centered Syncretism.” Ecumenical Review 37, no. 4 (1985): 387–97.

Thomas, M. M. The Acknowledged Christ of the Indian Renaissance. London: SCM Press, 1969.

Chen, Yongtao. “Toward a Tao Christology: Rethinking Christology in the Chinese Context.” Chinese Theological Review 17 (2003): 23–49.

Posts in this Series

• The Diverse, Rich, and Critical Imaging of Jesus Christ
• Ancestor Christologies
• Asian Christologies 
• Black Christologies
• Christology and Colour Symbolism
• Critiques of Western Representations
• Indigenous Christologies
• Latin American Christologies
• Liberationist Christologies
• Migrant Christologies
• Pasifika Christologies