Heart of the Cross A Postcolonial Christology

Name: Heart of the Cross A Postcolonial Christology
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ISBN: 9780664230630

ISBN-10: 0664230636

ISBN-13: 9780664230630

Edition: 2006

Authors: Wonhee Anne Joh

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Theologies have often pointed to the cross as a place of suffering and sacrifice, while feminist critiques have frequently argued against interpretations of the cross as patriarchal valorizing of suffering. W. Anne Joh points toward a new interpretation of the cross as a place of love, where God and humanity come together in a surprising way. She interprets the cross as performing a double gesture that has a subversive effect. The cross works simultaneously to pay homage to and menace complex oppressive powers. The cross as a double gesture speaks to those who have shifted from a typical politics of identity to political identities shaped more by postmodern ambiguities of difference.…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 8/10/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.726

Wonhee Anne Joh is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. She is the author of In Proximity to the Other: A Postcolonial Theological Anthropology.




Identity out of place


Out of place


Essentialism on trial


Politics of home


Feminist, postcolonial identity - toward Jeong



Han and Jeong


Psychoanalysis of Han and Jeong


Tales of Jeong


Translated translator


Joint security area : life and struggle at the DMZ


Sa-I-Gu : life and struggle in the L.A. Riots



Postcolonial theory and Korean American theology


Alien/nation


Identity as a "sweeping force"


Hybridity


Mimicry


Interstitial third space


Debating "postcolonialism"



The crucified God : the way of Jeong


Violent undertones and radical solidarity


Jurgen Moltmann's The crucified God and trinitarian Christology


Emancipatory praxis of Jeong



A Christology of Jeong


Destabilizing the patriarchal divinity


Hah/sin and Jeong/salvation


The powers of Jeong and the horrors of Han


Julia Kristeva's abjection and love


Conclusion : heart of the cross