Jesus in Asia by R. S. Sugirtharajah (PDF)

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Reconstructions of Jesus occurred in Asia long before the Western search for the historical Jesus began in earnest. This enterprise sprang up in seventh-century China and seventeenth-century India, encouraged by the patronage and openness of the Chinese and Indian imperial courts. While the Western quest was largely a Protestant preoccupation, in Asia the search was marked by its diversity: participants included Hindus, Jains, Muslims, Catholics, and members of the Church of the East.During the age of European colonialism, Jesus was first seen by many Asians as a tribal god of the farangis, or white Europeans. But as his story circulated, Asians remade Jesus, at times appreciatively and at other times critically. R. S. Sugirtharajah demonstrates how Buddhist and Taoist thought, combined with Christian insights, led to the creation of the Chinese Jesus Sutras of late antiquity, and explains the importance of a biography of Jesus composed in the sixteenth-century court of the Mughal emperor Akbar. He also brings to the fore the reconstructions of Jesus during the Chinese Taiping revolution, the Korean Minjung uprising, and the Indian and Sri Lankan anti-colonial movements.In Jesus in Asia, Sugirtharajah situates the historical Jesus beyond the narrow confines of the West and offers an eye-opening new chapter in the story of global Christianity.

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⭐In the west, our religious leaders have had a very narrow view of Jesus largely based in the historical person. This book showcases those “not overly burdened with the historical questions that preoccupied the later Western quest for the historical Jesus but focus more on imaginative narrative representation (p.4). The result is a marvelous new perspective(s) on Jesus. Thank you Professor Sugirtharajah for bringing these voices to my attention and greatly expanding my understanding of faith in general and Jesus in particular. Words cannot fully express my gratitude to you. Your book will be a permanent part of my shelf.

⭐This a great introduction to a world I barely new existed.

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