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Jesus Christ Among Asian Minjung: A Christological Reflection

 Jesus Christ Among Asian Minjung: A Christological Reflection by Yong-Bok Kim Kim Yong-Bock (family name Kim), Ph. D., is President of Hanil University and Theological Seminary in Chonbuk, Korea (Wanju-Kun Sangkwan-Myun, Shinri, 694-1; Chonbuk, Korea 565-830).  He received his Masters of Divinity and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University.  He has been a teaching fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary, an international consultant to the Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations, National Board of Missions, of the United Presbyterian Church (USA), and is founder and Director of the Christian Center for Asian Studies,  and  Director of the Doctor of Ministries Studies, a joint program with San Francisco Theological Seminary. This paper was written in August, 1989. SUMMARY Minjung means the People of God — all people. Who is Jesus Christ among the people of Asia is very closely related to the question of who is the Minjung. The author asks how the Minjung...

The purpose of Jesus’ incarnational advent and His ministry

The purpose of Jesus’  incarnational advent and His ministry here on earth as a man was not to establish a new religion, nor to inculcate a new teaching, nor to lay down a new morality system. Jesus came to bring Himself, the presence and dynamic of His own divine being, expressed in the humanity of one perfect man, so that He might be expressed as divine, eternal life in the humanity of all men.  The gospel that Jesus brought was entirely Christocentric. There is no message of “good news” apart from the ontological reality of the very Being of God in Jesus Christ who is the essence of Christianity. Christianity is Christ! #Crd . . .A COMMENTARY ON THE FOUR GOSPELS  by James  A. Fowler