Norlan H. Julia, S.J. (“Aloysius Pieris’s Asian Liberation Theology and Its Challenges to the Church’s Mission in Asia”) reexamines Aloysius Pieris’s Asian liberation theology as well as its implications for the Church’s identity and her mission to evangelize Asia. Pieris’s theology seeks to remedy the dichotomies which he observes in the Church between liturgy, spirituality, and secular involvement, for the separation of these mutually inclusive dimensions of Christian life has resulted in a spiritual crisis, one that needs to be resolved by integrating them in liberative teaching and praxis. In Pieris’s view, Christian life—which is the primary locus of sanctification and salvation—should be the source and summit of liturgical celebrations. Theology, then, is at the service of Christian life and so therefore must always be contextual. In the Asian milieu, this means it must come to grips with systemic poverty and multi-religiosity: “In Pieris’s view, the only way the Church in Asia can be transformed into being an Asian Church is by undergoing a double baptism. It must be immersed, first, into the waters of Asian religiosity, and secondly, into the cross of Asian poverty” (p. 63). Julia concludes his essay by appraising the strengths and limitations of Pieris’s theology and discussing his contribution to ecclesiology and missiology in the Asian context. – from the Editor’s Preface