A Korean theologian approaches the issue of racial conflict-including discrimination between minority communities-and constructs a "theology of seeing" that aims to heal the ruptures of racism. As ethnic tensions continue to simmer and occasionally erupt, immigration and affirmative action laws are hotly debated in every ethnic minority: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans-even Asian Americans (the so-called "model minority") struggle in the racially-charged atmosphere of contemporary America.

Andrew Sung Park is a Korean theologian who is a professor of theology at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. He is the author of The Wounded Heart of God: The Asian Concept of Han and the Christian Doctrine of Sin.

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Problems in the Korean-American Community
Han-Talk	p. 9
The Portrait of Han	p. 9
The Han of War and the Divided Korea	p. 12
"Comfort Women"	p. 14
Vincent Chin	p. 16
The Abandoned Woman	p. 18
Biased Writer for Film Production	p. 19
White Christianity	p. 20
Police Discrimination	p. 21
Victims of Media Racism	p. 22
The Han of the Korean-American Community	p. 26
Racial Conflict	p. 26
Structural Problems	p. 29
Results of Structural Problems	p. 40
The Sin of Korean-American Communities	p. 41
Racism	p. 41
Sexism	p. 43
Labor Exploitation	p. 45
Toward Solutions
A Vision for Society	p. 51
A Common Vision	p. 52
An Indispensable Vision	p. 52
An Inmost Vision	p. 56
A Vision of Eco-social Justice	p. 59
Mass Media	p. 62
A Vision for the Church: Parousia	p. 67
The First Coming	p. 68
The Second Coming	p. 69
A Vision for the Self	p. 72
The Western Concept of the Self	p. 73
The Eastern Notion of the Self	p. 75
Methodology
Sociological Theories	p. 85
The Assimilation Model	p. 85
The Amalgamation Model	p. 87
The Cultural Pluralism Model	p. 88
The Triple Melting Pot Theory	p. 90
A New Ethnic Identity: A Synthesis	p. 91
Current Korean-American Models: Church and Culture	p. 93
The Withdrawal Model	p. 94
The Assimilation Model	p. 95
The Paradoxical Model	p. 96
Embodying the Community of God: A Transcendent, Transmutational Model	p. 99
Transmutation	p. 99
Inward and Outward Aspects of Transmutation	p. 100
The Fourfold Task of Korean-American Christians	p. 101
Transcendence	p. 102
Theological Cross-culturalism	p. 103
The Cross: Symbol of Transmutation	p. 103
Radical Openness	p. 105
Authentic Visions	p. 105
Koreanness: Toward a Christic Community	p. 107
Hahn (Paradoxical Inclusiveness)	p. 107
Jung (Affectionate Attachment)	p. 110
Mut (Graceful Gusto)	p. 112
Koreanness and Christianity	p. 114
Contributions of Hahn, Jung, and Mut to Society	p. 115
The Extended Family	p. 118
The Korean-American Family	p. 119
The Modified Extended Family and the Extended Conjugal Family	p. 120
Family Decline	p. 122
Two Views	p. 124
The Extended Family and Christian Faith	p. 125
An Emerging Theology
Theology of Seeing Biblical Insights for Racial Healing	p. 129
Pentecost	p. 130
The Road to Emmaus	p. 132
The Lawyer's Question	p. 135
Seeing Others Well: Dissolving the Han of Group Conflict	p. 138
The Story of the King and the Monk	p. 138
Seeing Others	p. 139
A Culture of Seeing	p. 139
Seeing in Eastern Religious Traditions	p. 141
Seeing and Transmuting	p. 142
Seeing and Understanding	p. 144
Balm for Healing	p. 145
Visual Seeing: A Hermeneutics of Questioning	p. 146
Intellectual Seeing: A Hermeneutics of Construction	p. 148
Spiritual Seeing: A Hermeneutics of Affection	p. 151
Soul-Seeing: A Hermeneutics of Celebration	p. 154
Notes	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 183
Index	p. 195
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