Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology

by Joh, Wonhee Anne

• ISBN13: 9780664230630
• ISBN10: 0664230636
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-30
• Publisher: Presbyterian Pub Corp

Summary

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. Wonhee 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. Interpreting the cross as performing a double gesture that has a subversive effect, Joh argues that the cross works simultaneously to pay homage to and to menace complex oppressive powers. Utilizing the Korean concept ofjeong, Joh constructs a theology that is feminist, political and love-centered, while acknowledging the cross as source of pain and suffering. Joh's innovative vision is a call for political love that is stronger than powers of oppression.

Author Biography

Wonhee Anne Joh is Assistant Professor of Theology at Phillips Theological Seminary, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xiii
A Postcolonial Preamble	xiii
Searching for Roots	xv
``Resident Alien'': Displacement(s)	xvii
Complex Route/Deep Roots	xix
Argument of the Book	xxi
Mapping This Book	xxiv
Identity Out of Place	1	(18)
Out of Place	1	(4)
Essentialism on Trial	5	(4)
Politics of Home	9	(4)
Feminist, Postcolonial Identity---Toward Jeong	13	(6)
Han and Jeong	19	(30)
Psychoanalysis of Han and Jeong	19	(8)
Tales of Jeong	27	(3)
Translated Translator	30	(1)
Joint Security Area: Life and Struggle at the DMZ	31	(10)
Sa-I-Gu: Life and Struggle in the L.A. Riots	41	(8)
Postcolonial Theory and Korean American Theology	49	(22)
Alien/nation	49	(2)
Identity as a ``Sweeping Force''	51	(2)
Hybridity	53	(2)
Mimicry	55	(7)
Interstitial Third Space	62	(4)
Debating ``Postcolonialism''	66	(5)
The Crucified God: The Way of Jeong	71	(20)
Violent Undertones and Radical Solidarity	71	(4)
Jurgen Moltmann's The Crucified God and Trinitarian Christology	75	(6)
Emancipatory Praxis of Jeong	81	(10)
A Christology of Jeong	91	(26)
Destabilizing the Patriarchal Divinity	91	(10)
Han/Sin and Jeong/Salvation	101	(4)
The Powers of Jeong and the Horrors of Han	105	(1)
Julia Kristeva's Abjection and Love	106	(11)
Conclusion: Heart of the Cross	117	(12)
Notes	129	(24)
Index	153