Pub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1177/00405736221132861
A. Chu, John Perry
Both pro-establishment Christians, who support ‘obeying the authority’ (Romans 13), and pro-democracy Christians, who participated in the 2014–20 protests, want what is best for Hong Kong and truest to their Christian faith, but they understand those aims differently. The former believe social stability is a way to create space for Christian faith to flourish, while the latter judge that we need to break the current unjust system for Christian faith to begin flourishing. After conducting interviews with lay Christians, we found that both sides can struggle to communicate their vision for faithful Christian political theology. One reason, which we explore here, is that the key theo-political concepts at issue—namely, protest, democracy, and rights—derive from the historical context of post-Christendom societies rooted in the Western Enlightenment tradition. Hong Kong is adjacent to that tradition, but not at home in it. Using the method of ‘narrative portraiture,’ we endeavor to explore their respective theologies. This method uses the participants’ own stories, so that we, as researchers, are not speaking for Hong Kong Christians, but instead illuminating their own ideas. Presenting these lived theologies can remind us, as church leaders, that our congregations are a source of God's revelation to us, even when they may lack the terms to communicate effectively, which is why we should not forget to listen to the “average Jane.”
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Pub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1177/00405736221132864
Jane H. Hong
This piece outlines the importance of the Asian American Movement (AAM) for the church and for the field of Asian American theology and ongoing discussions thereof. It contextualizes the AAM in a particular demographic moment when US-born Asian Americans outnumbered immigrants for the first and only time in American history. Using the example of Japanese American Methodist clergy active in the AAM, it considers how their experiences of state-sponsored incarceration shaped a firm belief that ethnic and racial identity should inform how church leaders do ministry, teach the Bible, and engage society. In particular, their incarceration experiences cemented a lifelong commitment to justice and to the liberation of oppressed peoples both in the USA and overseas.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1177/00405736221146007
David C. Chao
{"title":"Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue: “Lived Theology in Asian America: Race, Justice, and Politics in Transpacific Context”","authors":"David C. Chao","doi":"10.1177/00405736221146007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221146007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"79 1","pages":"368 - 369"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49222401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1177/00405736221145257d
Wesley W. Ellis
{"title":"Book Review: Wrestling with Rest: Inviting Youth to Discover the Gift of Sabbath by Nathan T. Stucky","authors":"Wesley W. Ellis","doi":"10.1177/00405736221145257d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221145257d","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"79 1","pages":"461 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46799351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1177/00405736221145257
C. Traina
{"title":"Book Review: Believing into Christ: Relational Faith and Human Flourishing by Natalya A. Cherry","authors":"C. Traina","doi":"10.1177/00405736221145257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221145257","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"79 1","pages":"454 - 455"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42557473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1177/00405736221134015
Geomon George
Often called a “model community,” Indian Americans have taken root in American society. Indian American Christians have seen the United States of America as their “promised land.” However, living in this promise land, Indian American Christians had to overcome challenges of racism, hate crimes, and different forms of discrimination. Through case studies, interviews, and participatory observations, this article will examine the impact of the Black Lives Matter Movement among Indian Christians living in the New York City Metro area. In doing so, this article seeks to identify reasons for the perceived silence among Indian American Christians and the work that is being done in everyday life for the healing of a nation.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1177/00405736221145257f
R. Kane
{"title":"Book Review: The Facts on the Ground: A Wisdom Theology of Culture by William A. Dyrness","authors":"R. Kane","doi":"10.1177/00405736221145257f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221145257f","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"79 1","pages":"464 - 465"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41961721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1177/00405736221132860
Easten Law
Reflecting on the life and death of Feng Daoyou, one of the victims of the 2021 Atlanta shootings, this article introduces a transnational orientation for discerning lived theology focused on the liminal and contingent natures of Asian American experience applied across cultural and geographical contexts between Asia and America. This orientation is rooted in three traits: an abductive posture toward the unfamiliar; a critical impulse toward nationality and empire; and a co-constructive sensibility that embraces our shared conditions across boundaries. These traits are illustrated with the author's research with mainland Chinese Christian sojourners in Hong Kong and examples from new media outlets that explore transnational links and religious heritages.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1177/00405736221132865
J. Tran
In the following, I relate recent work I’ve done on Asian Americans and Asian American Christianity to a political phenomenon I refer to as the “antiracist culture war.” While I foreground description and analysis of the culture war, the precarious presence of Asian Americans informs the article throughout, becoming explicit in its second half. From the precarity of their position, one can see how the culture war works and the fate it bestows to Asian Americans. The manner by which the culture war marginalizes Asian Americans exposes the warrior logic driving its operations. The antiracist culture war makes casualties of Asian Americans, bystanders conscripted into a war not of their making.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1177/00405736221145257e
Jason D. Whitt
through a study of sleep science in adolescence. But Stucky’s theological vision for rest is not merely pragmatic. It is not a vision of rest for the sake of revitalization. Indeed, for Stucky, rest is not for the sake of work; work is for the sake of rest—and it is in rest that we discover the deepest truth of existence itself: God loves the world. If there is a weakness in Stucky’s argument, it is a somewhat ironic one. Stucky, the director of the Farminary at Princeton Theological Seminary and a farmer who is invested in small-scale regenerative agriculture, does somewhat neglect the deeper ecological implication of sabbath rest for his theology. Perhaps as a symptom of relying more heavily on Barth than Moltmann (although he is deeply informed by both) Stucky allows sabbath to linger in the sphere of the individual and only a careful reader will infer the corporate and ecological implications of this contribution. The reader will be inclined, however, to forgive any shortcomings of this book because its successes in offering a theological corrective to some of the church’s most imbedded prejudices are more profound and compelling than any of its shortcomings. The argument is clear and well executed. I cannot overstate the contribution this book makes to youth ministry nor the timeliness of this work. The reader who is willing to embrace a theology that is counterintuitive in a culture of achievement and productivity will delight in the consolation this book offers. This is not a run-of-the-mill youth ministry book to give tips and tricks. This book promises to inform the very shape of your theology.
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