Constructing Irregular Theology. Bamboo and Minjung in East Asian Perspective (Studies in Systematic Theology 1)

The project of constructing Asian irregular theology in East Asian
perspective, based on life-word of Bamboo and social political reality
of minjung, embraces Dr. Chung’s cross-cultural existence as he develops
his long-standing interest and expertise in Christian minjung theology
in new ways with the image of bamboo as a symbol for the theological
perspective of grass roots marginality. Using the ancient Chinese story
“The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove,” Dr. Chung engages with Christian
eschatological discourse to support an aesthetical-utopian theological
ethics that is opposed to an ethics concerned with legitimation of a
socio-economic status quo. In addition, Dr. Chung’s develops his deep
commitment to the Lutheran theology of the cross and the suffering
Christ through the Buddhist concept of dukkha (suffering) to create, in
the end, a genuinely East Asian contextual theology